The implementation of rapid writing strategy in teaching writing descriptive text at SMP Kyai Hasyim Surabaya

In learning English, writing is one of the important skills to be taught for students at junior high school. One of good strategy the teacher can use in English classroom is Rapid writing strategy. Rapid writing strategy is an effective strategy that encourages fluency without the worry of spelling in write for five to ten minutes until time is over without self-editing. The purposes of this research are: (1) to describe the implementation of rapid writing strategy in teaching writing. (2) to know the advantages to the student when the teacher applying rapid writing strategy in teaching writing descriptive text. This research used qualitative method which used descriptive qualitative to analyze the data.This research was conducted on eighth grade students and the English teacher of SMP Kyai Hasyim Surabaya. The findings in this study are show that using rapid writing in teaching descriptive text has many advantages for the students and teacher in teaching descriptive text. First, this strategy can improve writing skill. Second, students felt easy to write descriptive text with their own words. Third, increase students feeling and motivation