THE USE OF ANIMATION MOVIES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT: A CASE OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK SEPULUH NOPEMBER SEMARANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

Salmaissy, Yonanda Secha. 2019. The Use of Animation Movies to Improve
Students‟ Writing Skill in Writing Narrative Text: A Case of The Tenth Grade
Students of SMK Sepuluh Nopember Semarang in Academic 2019/2020. Final
Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts
Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Prof. Dr. Suwandi, M.Pd.,
Advisor II: Rahmawati S, S.Pd, M. Pd.
Keywords: Writing, Narrative Text, Animation Movies
The objectives of this study are: (1) to find out the students‟ writing ability in
narrative text before they are taught using animation movies, (2) to find out the
students‟ writing ability in narrative text after they are taught using animation
movies and (3) to find out the significant differences of the students‟ writing
ability in narrative texts before and after being taught using animation movies.
The type of the research was quantitative which belonged to pre-experimental
research where there was a class only as the subject of the research. The
population of this research was tenth grade students of SMK Sepuluh Nopember
Semarang. The sample was class X TKR B which consisted of 29 students. The
result of the research showed that the students‟ writing ability in writing narrative
text was improved after students were taught using Animation Movies. It was
proven by the result. The mean of the students‟ pre-test was 62,31 and the mean of
students‟ post-test was 84,31. Then the researcher calculated the t-test to know
whether or not there was significant difference between the students before and
after taught using Animation Movies. The result showed that t-value was higher
than t-table. The result of t-value > t-table (5.341 >1.701). It meant that there was
significant difference of the writing ability in writing narrative text of the tenth
grade students before and after being taught using Animation Movies. From the t-
test result, it could be seen that the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In conclusion,
Animation Movies was effective to improve students‟ ability of writing narrative
text.