A Comparative Study on Using Picture Series and Cartoon Movie toward Students’ Writing Achievements in Narrative Text at the Second Grade Students’ Mts Sultan Agung Jabalsari Tulungagung

Keywords: Comparative, writing narrative text, picture series and cartoon movie. The researcher would like to give an overview of learning writing narrative texts by using picture series and cartoon movie the eighth grade at MTs Sultan Agung Jabalsari Tulungagung in may 2014. The population is 31 students consist of two classes. They come from class A and class B. This research conducted at MTs Sultan Agung Jabalsari Tulungagung that can encourage learners to learn to write narrative text and make them more active in writing. This formulation of the research problems were: (1) How are the students’ achievements in writing narrative text taught by using picture series?. (2) How are the students’ achievements in writing narrative text taught by using watching cartoon movie?. (3) Which media result better on students’ ability in writing narrative text? The purpose of the research is (1) To know the students’ achievements in writing narrative text taught by using picture series. (2) To know the students’ achievements in writing narrative text taught by using watching cartoon movie. (3) To know the media result better on students’ ability in writing narrative text. The research design in this research was comparative design with quantitative approach, the population of this research was all students of eight grades at MTs Sultan Agung Jabalsari Tulungagung, the sample was VIII class consisting of class A 14 students and class B 17 with the homogenous mean score of the students, the research instrument was test, the data analysis was used statistical computation and the researcher uses SPSS 20. The result of this research is the main score students’ writing narrative text taught by using picture series and cartoon movie. The results of this research indicate that the average score of the total students were taught by using picture series and cartoon movie is (75.24). That score increased with Fratio analysis used by researcher that shown by Fcount = (5,053), and the score of F in the Ftable = (2.53). It means that Fcount higher than Ftable (Fcount > Ftabel) = (5,053> 2.53). This means that there is significant difference in use picture series and cartoon movie to teach writing narrative text in the class VIII MTs Sultan Agung Jabalsari Tulungagung accepted. In other words, both picture series and cartoon movie are effective for teaching writing narrative text. Therefore, the researcher concluded that picture series and cartoon movie can be used as alternative to teach writing narrative text for the eighth grades students’ level. The conclusion can be taken from this research. Based on the score of students achievement being taught after using picture series and cartoon movie is increasing. It is found that there is significant different between picture series and ix cartoon movie. It was referred to the mean score of each, 75.32 for picture series and 75.15 for cartoon movie it can be concluded that picture series has higher result on students’ writing skill. Actually both of the media was effective to be used as teaching media, however, picture series has better result. The suggestion which can be taken from this research, the English teachers especially in teaching writing narrative text in the class are suggested to use picture series and cartoon movie as media because this media are effective to improve students writing achievement. The English students are hoped to learn to write narrative text in the form of English language because it can help to improve the students’ ability in writing narrative text. For future researcher, this research in picture series and cartoon movie as media can be used as input to conduct the next research with difference subject, population and place