THE EFFECT OF VIDEO CLIP ON THE STUDENTS‟ WRITING SKILL IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 17 MAKASSAR

Abstract

The topic of this research is teaching writing narrative text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 17 Makassar by using video clip as teaching media. The objective of the research is to find out the effect of students writing achievement after being taught writing narrative text using video clip as media. This research used experimental research. Subject of this research is the class VIII 11 students of SMPN 17 Makassar in academic year 2017/2018 it consist of 30 students. The first step of experiment was giving a pre-test to the students. The students were asked to write a narrative text about Cinderella. After giving the pre-test, the treatment was given to the students. Video clip was shown from Sonna Rele entitled Strong (Cinderella). After giving treatment, the last was given post-test to the students. The results of the research showed there is an effect of students writing skill by using video clip as media. It can be seen from the data that has been collected where the total mean core in pre-test (56.63) and posttest (72.03). It can be concluded that video clip is one of the learning media that effect the students writing.