Abstract:
Writing skill in English is one of the language skills in learning English
that must be mastered by students. English writing is not easy subject for most of
students in Indonesia because English is their foreign language. Most of foreign
language learners face difficulties in learning English. The background of the
research was based on the phenomenon that many teachers still use conventional
way to teach students. So, it will be difficult for students to achieve teaching and
learning target. The use of video clip can be used as a teaching medium to help
teacher in teaching learning, especially in teaching learning writing narrative text.
The aim of the thesis is to find out the effectiveness of using video clips in
teaching writing narrative text at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 8
Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014.
The researcher applies quantitative method to discuss and find out the
problem appearing in this study. This study can be categorized as experimental
research. The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMA N
8 Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. The sample of this research is 60
from two classes, XI IPA 3 consists of 30 students as the experimental group, and
XI IPS 3 consist of 30 students as the control group. The sampling technique
which is used is random sampling. In getting the data, the researcher used written
test as an instrument (pre-test and post-test). The researcher analyzed the data by
using descriptive statistic analysis (mean, median, mode, SD, variance, and the
highest and lowest score) and inferential analysis (normality test, test of
homogeneity and t-test as hypothesis).
After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that using video clips in
teaching writing narrative text is effective. As the fact, the result of t-test is 2.32.
Then, the researcher consulted the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05)
alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is 2.000. The computation
shows that t-value is higher than t-table is 2.32>2.000. It means that using video
clips in teaching writing narrative text at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 8
Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014 is effective.
