THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MULTIMEDIA STORYBOARD IN TEACHING WRITING OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Writing is a process of putting through ideas in word then combine into sentences in a form of paragraph in which every sentence is related one to another. This skill is one of the language skills which inform us the researcher’s ideas in the written form. It is one of language skills learnt by students in their school. For almost students think that writing is unbearably difficult, because the factors could be lack of students’ understanding in grammar, lack of students’ ideas, and students can not imagine something that could be used in their writing. , many students made some mistakes and faced difficulties to build and develop their imagination. the most important thing should be done by the teacher is to prepare appropriate media and choose an effective technique in teaching writing. One of the way is through using multimedia storyboard. The multimedia storyboard conducts the students through the series of picture in bringing up the students ideas’ to write what they have been seen in storyboard. This research is aimed to find out: To identify whether the students taught writing of descriptive text by using multimedia storyboard have better score on the post-test than on the pre-test.This research is using pre-experimental research design by using pre-test and post-test with quantitative approach, because the researcher want to established possible cause and effect between dependent and independent variable. The researcher is intended to describe the effectiveness of multimedia storyboard toward students’ ability in writing descriptive text for the second grade students by comparing between the students’ score before being teach by multimedia storyboard and after being teach multimedia storyboard. There is any significant different score before and after the students gets a treatment using multimedia storyboard