Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to know the students’ ability in writing
report text and to find out whether the use of documentary film is effective or not
in teaching writing report text at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1
Prembun in the academic year of 2015/2016.
This study was classified as a quasi-experimental research with a pre-test
and a post-test. The subject of this study was the eleventh grade students of SMA
N 1 Prembun in the academic year of 2015/2016. The researcher took 56 students
as the samples. They were 28 students of XI MIA 1 as the experimental group and
28 students of XI MIA 2 as the control group. The experimental group was taught
using documentary film and the control group was taught using picture. In
collecting the data, the researcher used written test to get the data concerning the
students’ writing ability. The result of the test was analyzed using t-test formula
and SPSS.
The result of the test showed that there was a significant difference
between the experimental group and the control groups’ ability in writing report
text after getting the treatment. The mean score of the experimental group posttest
was 78.79 belonging to good level. Meanwhile, the mean score of the control
group was 71.61 belonging to good level. Moreover, based on the calculation of ttest
formula, it was found that the t-value was higher than the t-table by using 5%
alpha of significance (6. 275 > 2.005). Based on the result above, it can be
concluded that the use of documentary film is effective in teaching writing report
text, particularly at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Prembun in the
academic year of 2015/2016.
