The Use Of Cartoon Films To Improve Students’ Skill In Writing Narrative Texts (A Classroom Action Research in the Eight Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Sidoharjo Sragen Academic Year 2011/2012)

Oleh :
Vivit Kumala Dewi - X2210028 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The objectives of the research are: (1) Finding out whether the students’ skill in writing narrative texts can be improved by using cartoon films. (2) Finding out the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process when cartoon films are used in teaching writing narrative texts The research was carried out at SMP Negeri 1 Sidohar jo Sragen . The approa ch us ed in thi s r e s e a r ch wa s a cl a s s room a c t ion r e s e a r ch. It was conducted from April 2012 to June 2012. The subject of the research was the students of class VIIIB of SMP Negeri 1 Sidoharjo Sragen in the academic year of 2011/2012. The researcher was collected the data using qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data was collected from observations, interviews, while quantitative data was collected from the students’ writing score in pretest and post-test. The research was conducted in two cycles, in which in the first cycle there was three meetings and the second cycle was two meetings. The result of this research shows that the use of the cartoon films could improve the students’ skill in writing narrative text. The improvement of students’ writing skill was includes: (1) having an abundance of vocabulary and using appropriate vocabulary; (2) using correct capitalizations and spelling; (3) making sentences grammatically; (4) developing their ideas into coherent paragraphs. The effectiveness of using cartoon films in the teaching and learning process shown in: (1) motivating students to write narrative texts more confident; (2) making the lesson more clarity (3) increasing their interest in teaching and learning process; (4) increasing their attention when the learning process was running in class. The students’ mean scores were improved which could be seen from their writing mean score of pre-test (61.77), post-test 1 in cycle 1 (70.66), and also post-test 2 in cycle 2 (74.90). The score in post-test 2 showed that the score was higher than KKM (68.00). Based on this research, it can be concluded that the use of cartoon films as a media in teaching and learning process is a good choice to teach writing skill. The use of cartoon films can improve students’ skill in writing narrative text. Therefore, the researcher expects that cartoon film can be implemented and used in other writing classes.