Teaching Writing Skills Through Descriptive Text Using Digital Storytelling “StoryJumper” (A Classroom Action Research in the Tenth Grade of MA Al Ikhsan Beji in the Academic Year of 2022/2023)

The research entitled “Teaching Writing Skills Through Descriptive Text Using Digital Storytelling StoryJumper (A Classroom Action Research in the Tenth Grade of MA Al Ikhsan Beji in the Academic Year of 2022/2023)”. This research aims to (1) describe the implementation of StoryJumper to improve students’ skills in writing descriptive text, (2) describe the students’ skills in writing descriptive text after being taught using StoryJumper, and (3) explain the teacher’s and student’s perceptions toward the use of StoryJumper to improve students’ skill in writing descriptive text at the tenth-grade of MA Al Ikhsan Beji in the Academic Year 2022/2023. This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subjects of this research were the tenth-grade of MA Al Ikhsan Beji in the academic year of 2022/2023. The researcher took class X Social Science 1 as the research subject because several problems in writing descriptive text were faced by the students of class X Social Science 1. Based on the preliminary research, the first problem was that the students spent a lot of time writing descriptive text because they found difficulties to develop their idea. The second problem was that the students usually felt bored in the writing class because the teacher only used textbook. The third problem was that the students still lacked of vocabulary and grammar mastery. The qualitative data were collected from observation and interview, The qualitative data were analyzed using interactive model proposed by Miles, et al (2018). The quantitative data were collected from tests which consist of pre-test and post-test. The quantitative data were analyzed using Paired Sample T-Test. The results of this research show that (1) teaching writing skills through descriptive text using digital storytelling “StoryJumper” was effective. It could be seen from the result of the observation in every cycle that the teacher and the students could implement StoryJumper as a medium for writing descriptive text properly. All of the criteria in the observation checklists had been met by the teacher and the students. (2) The students made improvements in writing descriptive text. It can be seen from the mean scores in pre-test, post-test 1, and post -test 2. The mean scores increased as StoryJumper was implemented. Such a factual truth is denoted by the fact that the mean scores improved from 47.05 in pre-test to 71.94 in post-test 1 and to 80.15 in post-test 2. The students’ scores were analyzed using the Paired Samples T-Test in SPSS 20. The result shows that the p-value is 0.000 which is less than 0.05, it means that the result is statistically significant. (3) The teacher and students had positive perceptions toward the use of StoryJumper to improve students’ skills in writing descriptive text according to the result of the interview