Improving Students’ Writing Skill of Narrative Text Through Animation Movie
Abstract
The objective of this research was to find out whether or not the use of animation movie can improve writing skill of the fourth semester students of Pohuwato University. This research employed quasi experimental design and assigned experimental group and control group which were all consists of 20 students. The data were analyzed by using inferential statistics through SPSS. In conducting the research, the writer used animation movie as an instrument to improve the students’ writing skill which covered the five components of writing namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic. The research showed that there was an improvement on the students’ writing skill between pretest and posttest in experimental group after the treatment. Therefore, it is concluded that the use of animation movie is able to provide a great contribution to the students’ writing skill. It is proven by the result of inferential statistics in testing the score of the students where the mean score of posttest of experimental group is 71.50 which is higher than the mean score of posttest of control group 61.36. The difference of the mean score is statistically significant, it is based on t-test value of significant level (0.000 < 0.05). In other words, H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected.
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