The Effect of Using Haiku in Teaching Descriptive Text for Senior High School

This research is motivated by the lack of mastery writing descriptive text instudents’ ability. This is because in the learning process is still not varied. Thisstudy aims to determine the better from the use of Haiku in teaching descriptivetext for senior high school. This research uses a qualitative with experimentalmethod “pre-test and post-test control group design”. The populations in thisstudy were first year students on SMAN 8 Muara Bungo who were registered inthe January-June period of the 2020/2021 school year. The research sample was32 students of class X4 as the control class and X5 as the experiment class. Thedata of this study are the scores of the final test result of descriptive text writingwithout and using Haiku first year of SMAN 8 Muara Bungo.