| dc.description.abstract | Writing is one of the language skills that should be mastered well by the
students in Junior High School including the students at SMPN 1 Ambulu. As
informed by the English teacher, some students were less motivated to learn English
especially writing because they thought that writing in English was difficult. Some
other students even felt bored during the teaching learning process. This was because
the technique or media used by the English teacher was not quite interesting.
The English teacher should apply an interesting media in the writing class that
helps the students arouse their ideas into written form. Therefore applying cartoon
video can help the students to develop their writing achievement.
This research was an experimental research. The purpose of this research was
to know whether or not the use of cartoon video has a significant effect on the eighth
grade students’ writing achievement at SMPN 1 Ambulu in the 2010/2011 Academic
Year.
The area of this research was SMPN 1 Ambulu. It was chosen purposively
because the used of cartoon video had never been applied in teaching learning process
in this school.
The respondents of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 1
Ambulu in the 2010/2011 academic year. The research respondents were determined
by cluster random sampling. The total number of the respondents was 66 that
consisted of 34 students of VIII D as the experimental group taught by using cartoon
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video, while the control group consisted of 32 students of VIII E taught by using
pictures.
The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of writing
achievement test, interview, and documentation. The writing achievement test was
collected from the post test to make comparison between two groups after the
treatment, and the result was analyzed by using independent sample t-test. Based on
the calculation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher than that of the
mean score of the control group | en_US |
