THE EFFECT OF USING SHORT MOVIE FOR TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT: THE CASE OF GRADES 11 OF SMA ISLAM SULTAN AGUNG 1 SEMARANG

Keywords: Short Movie, Media, Writing, Narrative Text
This research was aimed at finding out whether or not using short movie as a tool is effective in enhancing the students’ English writing performance in terms of content and organization. The research design of this research was quantitative research design, pre-experimental research design. It was conducted in the form of one group pre-test and post-test design. Moreover, in this research, researcher was put one group and given the pre-test and post- test for getting the result and measured the data used SPSS program for analyzing data. There were two variables: the independent variable and the dependent variable. The Independent variable was short movie and the dependent variable was narrative text. The populations of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMA Islam Sultan Agung 1 Semarang. The samples were 34 students who were chosen by the teacher's recommendation. The enhancement of the study was showed when the researcher conducted post-test after treatment by using short movie. The result of t-test was 14.065, if the T-tea is compared to T-table with the degree of freedom 33 as stated hypothesis testing the T-test 14.065 is higher than the T-table 3.182 Therefore, based on the hypothesis testing, Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected, the theory is verified. It means that there was significant different between score of pre-test and post-test. It can be concluded that the students get good achievement in comprehending narrative text after they were taught by using the short movie.