Abstrak
This study aimed to determine find out whether the use of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) had a significant effect on writing of eighth grade students at SMPN 2 Tarakan. This research used pre-experimental design and eighth grade students at SMPN 2 Tarakan as the populations. The number of sample in this research were 30 students of VIII-H which were chosen by using convenience sampling technique. A writing test was as the research instrument. Data analyzed are data from pre-test and posttest. The data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using the IBM SPSS stastistics 23. The result of this study indicated that there were 13.37 points of difference in the average writing score between the pretest (53.93) and the posttest (67.30). It can be seen that the improvement of students' mean score in the posttest was higgher than pretest and it indicated that there was significant difference from students' writing score between pretest and posttest. Moreover, the result of paired sample t-test showed that the calculated t-value was 84.08 higher than the critical t value (2.045), the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The result of this analysis proved that there was a significant effect on eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Tarakan taught using the Picture Word Inductive Model in writing.