TIIE EFFECTIVENESS OF'USING VIDEO CLIPS IN TEACHING WRITING 1YARRATTVE TEXT AT THE ELEYEI\TII GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 8 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2O13,DA14

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.