Teaching writing for Senior High School is not an easy job. To teach writing, teacher seldom uses certain methods to teach writing. Moreover, the teaching writing is generally felt boring and even confusing for learners because it needs more analytical ability. It is the task for the teacher to encourage their students to learn to write in the target language. But the problems are different character and competencies students can also be a barrier which may be faced by teacher when he or she teaches in classroom. From this case the researcher intends to conduct the research applying a learning method which is expected to be helpful and beneficial for students as well teachers.
The objectives of this study are to identify the extent to which video critic contribute to the development of the ability in writing an analytical exposition text of the eleventh grade students of SMA Wahid Hasyim Tersono Batang in the academic year of 2010/2011 and to identify the extent to which video critic contribute to the development of the positive attitudes in writing analytical exposition text of the eleventh grade students of SMA Wahid Hayim Tersono Batang in the academic year 2010/2011.
The subjects of this study were the students of X1 social 1 of SMA Wahid Hasyim Tersono Batang in the academic year of 2010/2011. The number of the subjects was 38 students. This research was a classroom action research. The process of this research was conducted in three stages, including, pre cycle, cycle 1, and cycle 2. Cycle 1 was planed after conducting pre cycle. Cycle 2 was conducted based on the reflection results of cycle 1. The data were collected through observation and test during the teaching learning process in pre cycle, cycle 1 and cycle 2. The data were analyzed using quantitative descriptive analysis.
This research founds a significant difference in the achievement of students’ writing before and after being treated by using video critic healthy. The average of the students’ result in pre-cycle was 62. 21, in the cycle one test were 71. 21, in cycle two test were 76. 42, and in the post-cycle was 77. 34. It proved that the result of the post-cycle was better than the standard score of KTSP (2006) standard that is 65. The non-test analysis shows that the students’ positive attitude in writing analytical exposition text increased. The students were more attracted, more active, and more interested in studying when they used video critics compared to when they did not use house media. They responded the lesson well and enjoyed the whole of the lesson