THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ANIMATION FILM IN IMPROVING STUDENTS IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 33 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

As a foreign language, English is not easy language to be learn. English has four important skills to be mastered. To master the four skills, we have to master the writting as the basic. Teaching writing especially narrative text will be nice if there is a good media used. Animation film is a media that may be appropriate to be used as a media. Based on the statement above, the objective of this study is to find out whether there is any effectiveness of using animation film in teaching students writting in narrative text at the eighth grade of SMP N 33 Purworejo in the accademic year 2012/2013. The type of this research is experimental research. Then the technique sampling is cluster random sampling . The number of the population in this research is 229 students. The number of the sample is 66. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The test is essay that consist of orientation, complication, and resolution. The result of the research found that the highest score from the whole score both control and experimental group and both pre-test and post-test, is 90.The highest score was gotten by the student in experimental group after they get the treatment. While the lowest score was 50, that is gotten by the student in control group. After doing the test, the mean scores were found that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 63.09 and the mean score of post-test is 82.74 While the mean score of pre-test in control group is 58.63 and the mean score of post-test is 74.66. Then, the computation of t-test shows that the Ha is accepted. The value of t-test is 10.044. Then the t-table is 1.998. If the value of t-test is higher than t-table, the alternative hypothesis can be stated that the use of animation film as a media is effective to improve writing narrative text.