Improving Students\u27 Skill in Writing Narrative Text Through Animation Movies

Abstract

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether or not animation movies can improve the students\u27 writing skill at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Klego and (2) to describe the class situation. The research findings show that the use of animation movies can improve students\u27 writing skill and class situation. The improvement of students\u27 writing skill includes: (1) the students organized their ideas coherently using appropriate generic structure of narrative; (2) the students used more appropriate vocabularies; (3) the students wrote their naratives in grammatically correct sentences; (4) the students used spellings and punctuations correctly in their composition. The class situation also improved : (1) students were active and creative, they paid attention to the teacher\u27s explanation; (2) they did all exercises given by the teacher. Finally, it could be concluded that the use of animation movies could improve the students\u27 writing skill and the class situation