THE USE OF ANIMATION MOVIES FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE WRITING COMPETENCE An Experimental Study at SMAN 1 Petarukan in Academic Year 2010/2011

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study is an experimental research. It is about the use of movie for improving narrative writing skill to the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Petarukan. Teaching writing to Senior High School is not an easy task. It requires a lot of creativity from a professional teacher. The population of this study is the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Petarukan in the academic year 2010/2011. The sampling process was administered by applying cluster random sampling. There were 360 students of the tenth grade and the writer took 40 students as the experimental group who were taught by using animation movies and other 40 students as the control group who were taught without using animation movies. The technique used for collecting data is pre-test and post-test. First, the writer gave a pretest. The instrument used for measuring the achievement was a test. Before the test was used, it had been tried out first. The main purpose of conducting it was to find out the validity and reliability of the instruments. Since the validity coefficient of the test is 1,294 and the reliability coefficient of the test in 0,981 and the r table for 5% is 0,2172 so it can be concluded that the test is valid because r value is higher than r tabel The objective of the study is to find out the positive influence of animation movie for improving the students’ competencies in narrative writing. It is expected that the research would be useful for the teachers and students in language teaching and learning process. The result of the experiment had been analyzed statistically. The technique used in analyzing the data was the t-test formula. It was used to determine whether there was a significant difference between the means of the experimental group and the means of the control group. The result of this research showed that the experimental group got better average scores than the control group. By using the t-test formula, the writer measured the significant differences between the two groups. For five percent alpha level and78 degree of freedom, there was no definite critical value in the t-table. It is necessary to find the definite value using interpolation. The t-table was 1,980. The obtained t-value was 3,34 so the t-value was higher than the critical value. From the result, it can be concluded that the difference was statistically significant in the development of the students’ narrative writing competencies achieved by students who had been taught using animation movie from those taught without animation movies. Key words: narrative text, animation movie, teaching writing