gestures video or animation. The use of Indonesia Now video as a medium is to improve students‟ mastery in writing analytical exposition text. By using
multimedia material that combine text, graphics, sounds and gestures, the students can get information about the material in enjoyable, interesting, and easy to
understand and clear way. The information obtained from Indonesia Now can facilitate the students to analyze and provide arguments in accordance with the
video. They can use it as data to make written analytical exposition text easily.
1.2. Reasons for Choosing the Topic
An exposition is a piece of text that presents one side of an issue. If you have tried to persuade someone to believe something or if you have argued with someone,
then you have used the exposition text. “The purpose of an exposition text is to
persuade the reader or listener by presenting one side of an argument ” Anderson,
1997:46. The topic of this final project primarily deals with the use of Indonesia Now video as a media to improve students‟ mastery in writing analytical
exposition text. Based on school based curriculum KTSP Depdiknas,
2006;36, “there are thirteen text types for senior high school.
There are narrative, recount, descriptive, report, explanation, analytical
exposition, hortatory
exposition, procedure,
discussion, review, anecdote, spoof, and news item. While the purpose is preparing the students in mastering listening,
speaking, reading, and writing skills in reaching the functional literacy level the skill in understanding and creating short
functional text, monologues, and essays of the genre.
Sometimes the students find difficulties in building the idea and choosing the vocabulary the want to use to develop the text. Teaching using media may
help the students to solve this problem. That is way the writer chooses the topic using Indonesia Now video as a medium to teach written analytical exposition
text. An interesting media will motivate the students to understand the material
given by the teacher, and watching video can reduce the boredom of the students ‟
classroom activity. The students are expected to relax and enjoy the video and they will understand the content of the video easily. The students also can get the
information from the video and it can be used to develop the written analytical exposition text.
The topic of the use of Indonesia Now video as a medium to improve students‟ mastery in writing analytical exposition is chosen text for the following
reasons. First, writing is one of the four skills which are necessary to be developed by the students. Writing may be considered as the most complicated skill to
develop. In the writing skill, the students have to master the components of writing such as content, form, grammar, style and mechanics in order to make the
writing is readable and understandable. Second, the students are always interested in using different media to improve their writing skills. Indonesia Now video that
is used as a media to improve their writing. It helps them organize their ideas, so it should be relatively easy to write the analytical exposition text and make them
more interested in writing an analytical exposition text. Third, by using Indonesia Now video as a multimedia material that combine text, graphics, sounds and
gestures, the students can get information about the material in enjoyable, interesting, and easy to understand and clear way. The information obtained from
Indonesia Now can facilitate the students to analyze and provide arguments in writing the analytical exposition text easily.
1.3. Statements of the Problems
