THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ANIMATION MOVIE AS A MEDIUM OF TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 7 CILEGON

The objective of this research was to find out whether or not animation movie is effective towards students’ writing recount text ability at the eighth grade students of SMPN 7 Cilegon. The researcher chose quantitative as the methodology of the research with true experimental design. The population was all of the eighth grade students with total 272 students. The researcher took two classes as samples out of eight which consist of 30 students in each. Class 8.8 was the control while 8.7 was experimental class. The classes were given tests as the instrument, namely pretest and posttest. The experimental class was treated with using animmation movie as the medium while the control one was taught without it. The result showed that there was positive effect of using animation movie in the experimental class. It was proved by t-test result counted by SPSS v.20. The t-count was -4741 and the t-table was –(2.045). The significance level with two tailed test was 0.00 with α = 0.05 or 5% of significance level and 29 of df. It means that the -t-count was < -(ttable) and the significance level was < α. Therefore, it indicated that there was positive effect of using animation movie towards students’ writing recount text ability at eighth grade of SMPN 7 Cilegon.  

Keywords :        Effectiveness, Animation Movie, Writing, Recount Text