The Indonesian government has dedicated that English is a compulsory subject that is taught at school. English contains of four skills that should be studied by high school students. They are consists of listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Writing is a difficult subject to students. This is because it is a mixture of idea, concept, vocabulary, and grammar. Therefore, the teacher should choose the correct media in teaching it. Flash animation is one of the media that can be used in teaching narrative writing more clearly. It is a good medium to teach it. By using flash animation, students will see colourful objects, her voices and see gestures of the characters, so that students can follow the plot clearly.
In this thesis, the writer chooses flash animation film as the media to improve students’ narrative writing. She wants to know the implementation of teaching narrative writing through flash animation and the improvement of students’ narrative writing after being taught using flash animation.
In order to achieve the objective of the study, the writer designed a classroom action research. The population of this study was the tenth year students of SMA Negeri 13 Semarang and the subject of this study was 36 students. The classroom action research was done in three stages, pre cycle, first cycle, and second cycle. These cycles consist of four stages, planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.
. The result of this research showed the improvement of students’ narrative writing ability. It can be seen from their score. The score in the pre cycle was 51, 56, the first cycle was 67, 22 and the second cycle was 72, 33. From that finding, it can be concluded that flash animation film is effective to improve students’ ability in narrative writing. It helps students learn and memorize better because the teachers’ explanation in facilitated audiovisual media. Flash animation also helps the students to understand story because we can see the character’s attitude in the story. So, even though the students do not know the vocabulary items, they still understand the story.