JENITA DAPPA Pengarang GRACIA M. N. OTTA Dosen Pembimbing 2 Tans Feliks Dosen Pembimbing 1 Santri Emilin Pingsaboi Djahimo Ketua Penguji Gracia M. N. Otta Penguji 2 Tans Feliks Penguji 1

Writing skill is one of the four important skills in English. This skill should be taken into account in teaching learning process. However, the phenomenon existing in school clearly shows that students have difficulties in learning writing. The undertaking of the present classroom action research was mainly intended to figure out whether tell-show strategy can improve the subjects’ writing skill. The subjects of this study were the eighth grade students of UPTD SMP 11 KUPANG in academic year 2021/2022 that consisted of 23 males and 13 females. Based on the pre-test which was carried out in the pre-cycle, the mean score of the students was 54.66. It pointed out that the subjects’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph was categorized as sufficient. This study was then carried out through implementing tell- show strategy in two cycles. The result of the post-test I was 75.11 and 82.5 in cycle II. It obviously showed that there was significant improvement concerning the subjects’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph in which it improved from the level of sufficient to good. This research furthermore showed that there was changing learning behavior as the result of the positive responses concerning the technique applied in improving the subjects’ writing skill. As a summary, this present study proved that tell-show strategy could improve writing skill of the eighth grade students of UPTD SMPN 11 KUPANG in Academic year 2021/2022; in addition, the subjects also responded positively the implementation of tell-show strategy. Keywords: writing, descriptive paragraph, tell-show strategy.