Circle Chain game is a game to teach writing that is usefultoteach descriptive text.The game enables the English teacher to provide exercises in writing descriptive text. Through this game, it is hoped that the students’ ability in writing will improve.
This study aimsto find out the implementation of circle chain game using picture in improving students’ ability in writing descriptive text in VII A grades students in SMP N 1Giritontro Wonogiri.
This research is a classroom action research done through threecycles. The subject of this study was the VII A grades students in SMP N 1Giritontro Wonogiri in the academic year of 2012/2013. The number of the subjects was 32 students. The data was gathered through test, documentation and observation.
The results show thatin the first cycle, the students were asked to make descriptive text by describing their classroom. the students’ achievement in the first cycle was 59.54. In the second cycle the students were asked to describe simple picture about the dancers. The students’ achievement in the second cycle was 62.86. In the third cycle, the last cycle, the students were given simple picture about modeling that is familiar with them and their achievement was 79.25.After the three cycles above are conducted, thestudents gain significant improvement in writing descriptive with the result 79.25.Based on the results above, it can be concluded that using circle chain gamecan improve students’ descriptive text writing as well as provide students an enjoyableEnglish learning.