FOSTERING STUDENTS' WRITING ABILITY THROUGH PROJECT BASED LEARNING APPROACH

This study aims to investigate the improvement of writing ability by employing project based learning strategy. It involved 32 students of tenth grade Design Communication Visual department in SMKN 1 Banyuwangi. The students were asked to write descriptive text by describing an innovative product design. The essay was analysed to measure the students' improvement in writing ability. The research design of this study is a Classroom Action Research (CAR). The result revealed that the implementation of Project based learning significantly improved the students writing ability of descriptive text and it also proven improving aspects of writing; organization, content, vocabulary, and grammar.