The Implementation of Growing Gardening Metaphors in Students Writing Descriptive Text

Abstract

This study investigates the implementation of growing gardening metaphors in students writing the descriptive text of VII grade students in a school in Garut. It explores the metaphor of growing gardening that can be used by teachers to make teaching and learning in English classes more enjoyable and communicative. To this end, the study carried out qualitative methods with a case study design. Then the results of the study show that the application of the growing-gardening metaphor can overcome the problem of writing descriptive texts in class VII of junior high school. Because this metaphor activity is used as a solution for teachers to solve students' problems in writing descriptive texts in the first grade of junior high school. This helps the teacher in teaching writing descriptive texts which motivates students to think more creatively in considering the same function or activity both experience and garden vocabulary when writing texts. To carry out this class activity, the teacher takes approximately 80 minutes to spend the required time. This study concludes that The growing gardening metaphor can be applied to junior high school students in Garut.