Significance of the Study

2 The teacher can use British Council Animation as an alternative media to teach narrative to Junior High School students. 3 The researcher can get knowledge and experience of using British Council Animation as a media to improve students’ writing skill in narrative text. 4 The readers can obtain certain understanding about the application of using British Council Animation for Junior High School students.

1.10 Limitation of the Research

This research is for Junior High School’s students. This research tries to discuss the effectiveness of using “British Council Animation” as a media to improve student’s writing skill in narrative text.

1.11 Outline of the Report

In this final project the outline of the report will be divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction. This chapter consists of background of the study, identification of the problems, reasons for choosing the topic, research problem, research question, hypotheses, objectives of the study, operational definition of variables, significance of the study, limitation of the study and outline of the report. Chapter II is review of related literature that discusses the general concept of British Council, animation, .swf or Shockwave Flash Object, general concept 8 of media, the functions of media, British Council Animation as the media, general concept of writing, general concept of narrative text, generic structure of narrative text, and lexicogrammatical features of narrative text. Chapter III deals with research method that discusses research design, object of the research, subjects or population and samples, instrument, procedure and methods of data collection, techniques of data analysis. Chapter IV presents research result and discussion. It presents the result of analysis of each meeting, significant different between two means, test of significance, research findings, and discussion of the findings. Chapter V is the last chapter. This chapter contains the conclusion and suggestion. It describes the conclusion of the overall research and some suggestions for the students, teachers, and also for the next researchers. 9