Enhancing Students’ Ability to Write Procedure Text through YouTube Video

This study was aimed at finding out how YouTube Video as the media are employed to enhance the students’ ability in writing procedure text of SMP Negeri 3 Barebbo. This research used quantitative research method named quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test in analyzing students’ writing achievement. The research was conducted in eight meetings, in which it includes pre-test, four times of treatment, and post-test. The subject of this research were the third year students which consist of 24 students. This research finding indicated that The YouTube video was significantly effective enhancing students’ procedure text writing, include all aspects of writing; content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic. It can be seen from the results that were analyzed using descriptive statistic. The mean score of experimental groups’ pre-test is 53.33, meanwhile post-test is 84.46 and the frequency and percentage of pre-test,students were very poor level and in post-test 50.00% of students got very good level. It is indicated that the use of YouTube video as media can enhance students writing achievement of the third-year of SMP Negerri 3 Barebbo in the 2018/2019 academic year. Based on the research finding, the teacher are recommended to have better competencies in selecting and presenting procedure text video in teaching writing. Keywords: Writing, Procedure Text, YouTube Vide