The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the reading comprehension skills of the descriptive text and the writing skills of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bonjol. This research used quantitative research using a descriptive correlational design. In this study, there were two variables, namely the X variable and the Y variable. The X variable was the A writing test was used to see the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Moreover, an interview was used to see the students’ difficulty in writing descriptive text. Based on the analysis of five elements of writing, such as content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics, it was found that the students still have many Lestari, Astri Indah (2015) TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH GENRE BASED APPROACH:(A Case Study Research at a Junior High School in Bandung). S1 thesis, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Descriptive Text about Bandung Name : Nathan Wilbert Lorenzo Absen & Class : 10 / 9. Identification : Bandung is one of the nicest place in Indonesia. Bandung is the capital city of West Java Province. With the population over than 2 millions people. Bandung is known as “Flower City”. This research aims to find out the ability of the tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Model Palu in writing descriptive text. This research used a quantitative research design. By using a random The result of data analysis showed that the mean score of the second year students of SMAN 1 Sikur in reading the descriptive text was fairly good. There were 21 (52.5%) students who were in a .

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