Improving Writing Ability of the Eighth Grade Students in SMP 02 Gebog by using Silent Film In the Academic Year 20111/2012. Skripsi.

In this globalization era, mastering English is so important moreover we are as the Indonesians whose country is still developing. Writing becomes one of the difficult skills that must be mastered by the students. Many students in SMP 02 Gebog still have poor ability in four skills, especially in writing. Those reasons because when they write something, they must pay attention in many things, including ideas, concepts, vocabulary and grammar. Other factor of students’ difficulties in writing text is the media of teaching. The English teacher in SMP 02 Gebog seldom uses a media in teaching English. It can make the students feel bored because there is no variation. The students also are difficult to understand the material because there is no tool that can help them. Objective of the Research is to explain how using Silent Film can improve the writing ability of the eighth grade students of SMP 02 Gebog in the academic year 2011/2012 or not. In this research, the writer decides to conduct classroom action research. Here the writer uses collaborative action research. The writer collaborates with English teacher in SMP 02 Gebog to conduct this research. The technique of collecting data is by using achievement test and observation sheet. An interview is also done to know the students’ and teacher’s problem so the writer can know the teacher’s and students’ diffulties in teaching writing. The results of tests show that the students’ mean score in the writing cycle I were 64.45%. It means that the test was not successful. On the other hand, the writer continues to cycle II. In the writing of cycle II, the students’ achievement reached 73.5%. Although the average score is upper than KKM, there are still some students that failed. It means that the test was not successful. In cycle III, the students’ achievement reached 80.58%. It means that the test was successful and all of students pass the test. So the writer concludes that silent film can improve the students’ writing ability. However, the writer suggests the teacher should careful in choosing the film that will be used as an alternative teaching media. The teacher should pay attention on sequence type, familiarity, length, students’ interest, the objective of teaching, etc. This research will give some useful information about teaching writing by using silent film. It becomes more interesting for the students to produce the text by visualization of this film