Enhancing Students’ Writing Ability of Narrative Using Animation Video

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out whether the use of animation Video is more effective than the use of conventional technique (question-answer) toward students’ writing skill of narrative text. The method used in this research was experimental research using non-equivalent control group design. The population of this research was taken from all of tenth grade students of Senior High School (SMA) PGRI Tembilahan. The total population was 50 students which consist of two classes. The researcherss used class X.1 which consist of 25 students as experimental group and class X.2 which consist of 25 students as control group. In collecting the data, the researcherss conducted pre-test and post-test. The researchers used written test as the research instrument. The result of the research showed that there is significant difference toward writing skill between students who were taught by using animation video and those who were taught by using question-answer technique. Since it was found that the value of t-observed is 5.770 and the value of t-table is 2.682 (two tailed test) with the degree of freedom (df) 48 at the significant level (α) 0.05. The computation showed that t-observed is higher than t-table that is 5.770 > 2.682. Furthermore, the result of effect size test calculation was gained the value of r = 0.63 with the medium category. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of word chain game was more effective than the use of conventional technique (question answer) toward student’ writing skill of narrative test.