This research was aimed at finding out: (1) whether there is a significant difference in narrative writing skill between students taught using comic strips and students taught using movie; and (2) whether comic strips is more effective to teach narrative writing. The research method was done by using quasi-experimental research design. This research was conducted at SMP N 16 Surakarta in the academic year of 2018/2019. The population of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP N 16 Surakarta. The samples are class VIII E as experimental class and class VIII C as control class. Both classes consist of 23 students. The research instrument used to collect the data in this study is test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The computation of the t-test showed that to (tobservation) is 2.407 while the tt (ttable) for the degree of freedom 44 and the level of significance ?=0.05 is 2.015. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between students taught using comic strips and those taught using movie. The mean score of experimental group is 71.83, meanwhile the mean score of control group is 68.48. The mean score of the experimental group is higher than the mean score of the control group. Hence, it can be concluded that Comic Strips is more effective than Movie to teach narrative writing.
Key words: comic strips, movie, writing skill.
