The Use of Silent Movie Shaun The Sheep as Media To Improve Writing Skill of Descriptive text (An Action Research the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus in Academic year 2011/2012.

In English there are four language skills. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students must master the four of language skills so they can use English actively and also passively. As an English skill, writing is a complex process that allows writers to explore thought and ideas, and make them visible and concrete. In Senior High School curriculum, writing is one of the competence standarts conducted to the students. There are some materials of writing English text that is taught at SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus, one of them is descriptive text. The students must be able about it. But in fact, most of the students are difficult about this subject, especialy for the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus. The Use Silent Movie as media in teaching and learning process is expected to stimulate the students’ interest in having habit of writing and can help students to develop their writing skill. The objective of the research is to improve the students’ ability in writing a descriptive text by using Silent Movie. The research will give some useful information about descriptive text and teaching writing by using Silent Movies. It will be more interesting for the students to produce descriptive text. This research was conducted in SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus. I used a classroom action research with 32 subject. This research consisted of III cycles and each of them consisted of planning, action, observation, reflection. The averange score percentage or the students’ writing skill in descriptive text in cycle I is 52.5%. In cycle II, the averange score percentage of the students’ writing skill in descriptive text is 66.1%. And in cycle III, the average score percentage of the students’ writing skill in descriptive text is 71.1%. So, there is an increasing of the averange score percentage of the students’ writing skill im every cycle. Beside, the students and the teacher’s activity are improved and the problem faced by the teacher decreased in every cycle. Because the research was successful, I suggest the teacher use Silent Movie to teach English especially in writing descriptive text since it makes the students did not feel bored and were easier to understand the material