The use of fairy tale videos to improve the students' writing ability of narrative text: the case of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Gadung Surabaya

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Qibtiyyah, Mariyatul (2011) The use of fairy tale videos to improve the students' writing ability of narrative text: the case of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Gadung Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research is about describing the use of fairy tale videos to improve the students' writing ability of narrative text: the case of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Gadung Surabaya. The purposes of this study are to identify the difficulties faced by the students in writing nan-ative text, to explain how the fairy tale videos are used to deal with students' difficulties in learning narrative writing, and to confinn the effect of using fairy tale videos whether or not fairy tale videos have impact on students' achievement in writing nairntive text. This research observes the second grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Gadung Surabaya. In this research, the researcher combines descriptive qualitati ve and quantitative research. The data are collected by observation in the classroom, interview with the teacher -.mcl some students, quest ionna ires for the students, and documentation. Furthermore, the inst ruments of this resarch are observation checklist, interview guide, question nai re, and the tacher's docu men ta tion. This research finds that the students are faced with some problems such as having lack of vocabulary and grammar mastery while they are practicing narrative writing. Based on the questionnaires and interview with some students, the majori ty of the students are getting difficulties to use vocabulary and grammar in writing narrative text. From the result of observation in the class, the research councludes that the fairy tale videos min imize the students difficult is in writing narrative text. It helps the students to produce and organize ideas easily. Besides, most of the studen ts give good responses towards the im pkmcmation of fa i ry tale videos to teach nan-ati ve w1iti ng. Most of the students feel ent husiastic t o study narrati ve writing using fairy tale videos. Moreover, from t he results of students• narrat i ve com posi t i on. it can be concluded that the students have good im proved. The teaching of narrative writing through fairy talc videos contribut es good progress to the students achievement i n writing narrative. When t he teacher uses fairy tale videos the students•mean score is improved from 69.26 up to 73.47. They canreach the success criteria; moreover their mean score is higher than the success criteria. Thus. fairy tale videos can give a good improvement on t he students writing ability of narrative text. The teacher can use it as alternative med ia when students feel bored with textbook or lecturing method in teaching activity.