METATHESIS: JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND TEACHING Vol. 7, No. 2, Oktober 2023 PP 174-185 DOI: 10.31002/metathesis.v7i5.674 p-ISSN: 2580-2712 e-ISSN: 2580-2720 174 Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Utilizing Visual Literacy Competence as a Strategy in Teaching Descriptive Writing Hermansyah 1 *, Rahayu Puji Haryanti 2 , Sri Wahyuni 3 , Frimadhona Syafri 4 Universitas Negeri Semarang Kota Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia hermansyah@students.unnes.ac.id 1 *; rahayu_ph@mail.unnes.ac.id 2 ; sriwahyunifbs@mail.unnes.ac.id 3 ; frimadhona@mail.unnes.ac.id 4 * corresponding author Received: Revised: Accepted: Published: 22 May 2023 2 October 2023 30 October 2023 7 November 2023 Abstract Utilizing visual literacy competence, a strategy is very helpful in order to make students’ feel better in writing a descriptive paragraph, since, it is help students to develop their idea, thinking and imaging a vocabulary use and having an organization of idea come up into their mind. The purpose of this paper is to know the effectiveness of utilizing visual literacy competence as a strategy in teaching descriptive paragraph writing, and to know the students’ perception toward utilizing visual literacy competence as a strategy in teaching descriptive paragraph writing. Mixed method used in this research. The result came from the test given in one-group-pretest and posttest, and qualitative data from the questionnaire given to 22 students of Vocational High School students. It can be drawn that the efficiency of using visual literacy in the classroom to teach students how to write descriptive paragraphs, as well as the attitudes of the students toward the use of visual literacy in the classroom to teach students how to write descriptive paragraphs. Most of students are agreed to utilize visual literacy as strategy in teaching descriptive paragraph writing is really effective to use. Keywords: utilizing, visual literacy, strategy, and writing Introduction Our mother is our first school, and our first teacher is our parents. Where we learnt many things from our first school and parent, learning a language also we adapt from them. Learning from very basic skills in language such reading and knowing the alphabet even we learnt it from our parents. Looking at our parents expression, looking at the media they bring from outside the house which help us to know alphabet is one of a thousand the way we learn it. First day of our secondary school, where we learn to write an alphabet from the blackboard whom teachers wrote on it is also memorable. Learning basic skill like writing is one of the important things that a child could learn and can be taught at home first. We all know that learners