TY - JOUR AU - Sri Rahayu AU - Hamidah Sidabalok PY - 2023/03/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Effect of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Method in Writing Descriptive Text at Grade X of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Limapuluh In Academic Year 2019/2020 JF - KnE Social Sciences JA - KSS VL - 8 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.18502/kss.v8i4.12928 UR - https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/12928 AB - This study aims at investigating the effect of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Method in writing descriptive . This study was conducted by experimental research. The population of this study was the students at grade X IPA of Madrasah AliyahNegeri Lima Puluh. The total number of the population was one hundred sixty two students in four class. There were 32 students chosen as the sample by using random sampling technique. The sample was divided into two groups, namely control group and experimental group. The experimental group was taught by using CTL Method and control group was taught without using CTL Method. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis shows that t-observed value is higher than t-table (2.34>2.00) at level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom 58. It means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Based on the findings of this study, it was found that there is a significant effect of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Method in writing descriptive text.Keywords: CTL; Contextual Teaching; descriptive text ER -