IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY ON NARRATIVE TEXT USING VIDEO

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether and to what extent the use of videos can improve the students’ ability in writing Narrative text; and (2) to describe what happens to the class climate when videos are implemented in the writing class. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 1 Ngemplak. It was conducted from September 2011 up to May 2012. The subject of the research is the students of class XI IA 1 of SMA Negeri 1 Ngemplak in the academic year of 2011/2012. In collecting and analyzing the data, the researcher used two kinds of data; qualitative data and quantitative data. The research findings show that the use of videos can improve students’ writing ability and class climate. It can be seen from their interest and motivation for English class, and writing mean score of pre-test 66.05 increased to 71.41 in post-test 1, and 75.05 in post-test 2. The last mean score is higher than KKM which is 72.00. Finally, it can be concluded that the use of videos can improve the students’ writing ability in narrative text and the class climate.Keywords: writing ability, narrative text, video