Improving Students’ Ability In Writing Descriptive Text Using Youtube Videos (A Classroom Action Research at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri Gondangrejo in the academic Year of 2011/2012)

Oleh :
Arif Choirul Bashir - X2210003 - Fak. KIP

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether and to what extent the use of YouTube videos improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text; and (2) to describe the class climate when YouTube videos are implemented in the writing class. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri Gondangrejo. It is conducted from January 2012 up to March 2012. The subject of the research is the students of class X5 of SMA Negeri Gondangrejo in the academic year of 2011/2012. The research is conducted in two cycles, in which in the first cycle there are four meetings and three meetings in the second cycle. It is optimized the used of YouTube videos as the media for teaching writing. There are two kinds of data; qualitative data and quantitative data. The qualitative data are collected through observation, interview, and questionnaire. The quantitative data are collected using test. The qualitative data are analyzed through constant comparative method (CCM) including comparing incidents applicable to each category, integrating category and their properties, delimiting the theory and construct the theory. The quantitative data are analyzed through descriptive statistic technique including pretest, test in cycle 1, and post test. The research findings show that the use of YouTube video can improve students’ writing skill and class climate. The improvement of students’ writing skill include: (1) students explore their ideas easily, they added more details description on their writing; (2) the students organized their ideas coherently using appropriate generic structure of descriptive; (3) the students used more appropriate word forms; they did not interchange the use of adverbs and adjectives anymore; (4) the students wrote their descriptive in grammatically correct sentences; (5) the students used capitals and punctuations correctly in their composition. The class climate also improve include: (1) students’ are active and creative, they pay attention to the teacher’s explanation; (2) the students are interested in writing class, they don’t do their personal business; (3) the students can finish the writing assignment during the lesson ; (4) they do all exercises which is given by the teacher; and (5). students give more responses when the teacher asks them to do the task in front of the classroom. In addition, the students mean score were also improve which can be seen from their writing mean score of pre-test, post test in cycle 1, and cycle 2, that is 66.04, 70.64, and 75.68. the last mean score is higher than KKM which is 75.00. Finally, it can be concluded that the use of YouTube videos can improve the students’ writing skill and the class climate.