Writing is one of ways to communicate. Writing is not a simple process. It is not only the act of the picking up a pencil and forming letters, it is the activity in teaching learning process in which the students are able to express their ideas, opinions, feelings, and organized them in simple sentences or in short paragraph and a text well. It involves the mastery of all elements in the target language such as organization, content, grammar, punctuation, spelling, mechanics, and also style and quality of expressions. It involves complex process. Consequently, students may have difficulties in doing this activity. This final project aims to teach writing a recount text for students by using short movie. This study was carried out under the consideration that the students often encounter problems in implementing correct steps in writing recount text. One of this problem’s solving is by using interactive medium such as short movie.
This study is about the effectiveness of movie as media to improve recount writing skill of the tenth grade of SMA N 6 Semarang in the academic year of 2010/2011. The statement of the problem in this study is; how effective is the use of short movie to improve students’ ability in writing recount text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 6 Semarang in academic year of 2010/2011?. The objective of this study is to find out the effectiveness of movies as media in the teaching of recount writing for the tenth grade students of SMA N 6 Semarang.
The population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA N 6 Semarang. The research methodology was an experimental research, which conducted in two classes; the experimental group (X 2) and control group (X 5) was. The X 2 was taught by using movie, while the X 5 was taught without movie (using text). The writer gave writing test to gather the data. There are two test; pre test and post test. The formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine whether there was a significance difference between students’ score in experimental group and students’ score in control group.
After the data had been collected by using test, it was found that the pre-test average of the experimental group was 60.11 and control group was 61.33. While, the post-test average of the experimental group was 77.22 and control group was 70.11. The obtained t-test was 3.243, whereas the t-table was 1.67 for a = 5%. The t-test score was higher than the t-table (3.243 > 1.67). It was meant that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected. Since t-test score was higher than the t-table, movie was effective media in improving students’ recount writing in SMA N 6 Semarang. Based on the finding, the writer assumes that movie may be used as one of alternative medium in the teaching of recount writing