The Effect of Using Animation Video on Students’ Writing Skills

Abstract

This research aims to answer the problem of whether animated videos improve students’ writing skills in understanding text structures, determining ideas in story texts, organising content in stories, and using vocabulary and grammar in narrative texts in the first grade of SMAN 4 Kediri. Researchers used classroom experimental research. The tools used to collect data are observation and tests. At the first meeting without using animated videos, while at the second meeting, the authors used animated videos to improve students’ writing skills in understanding text structure, determining ideas in story texts, organising content in stories and using vocabulary and grammar. At the last meeting, the writer gave an animated video and the students made a story according to the video. The author uses animated videos with activities showing animated video stories and providing foreign words to improve students’ ability to understand written narrative texts. The author uses animated videos with predictive activities, confirmations, class discussions, and tests to improve students’ abilities in writing narrative texts. The author uses animated videos with activities to review each character and look for real and detailed information to improve students’ abilities in creating narrative texts. The conclusion of this research is that animated video techniques can improve students’ writing skills.