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Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that Senior High School students as adolescents learners and intermediate learners are able to study
English with more challenging materials. English teachers can use their own material based on the curriculum. However, the teachers should have a special and
correct technique and media in teaching them to create enjoyable activities.
2.2.7 Video Clips
Video clip is “a short video” The Third Edition of Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Based on http:presentationsoft.about.comoduvwg
95video-clip-definition.htm accessed January 25, 2011, a video clip is “a small section of a larger video presentation. A series of video frames are run in
succession to produce a short, animated video.” There are many kinds of video clips, for example video clips from a security
camera, movie thriller, video clips from a singer or a music band, etc. In this research, I use video clips that contain song, music and story with interesting
moving pictures coming from Avril Lavigne entitled Alice Underground and Emily Osment entitled Once Upon a Dream. Those video clips can be taken from
VCD or downloaded from the Internet. Video clip is one kind of audio visual media. It will be very useful in teaching
learning process if the teacher carefully prepares it and then heshe uses it effectively to support the explanation of the lesson. By using video clips as
teaching learning media, English teacher is able to teach how to write a good narrative text more interestingly because before the students try to write a
narrative text, they can listen to the music and enjoy the video clips that contains
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story that will help them to write their narrative texts. The video clips will be used as sources for the students to write narrative texts and for the teachers, video clips
can be used as teaching media to teach how to write narrative texts following the generic structure of narrative texts.
Using video clips in teaching writing is actually intended to help students to get their idea easily. The lyrics of the song will help the students to choose the
right words when they are writing the text. Besides the lyrics, the students will get some ideas from moving pictures in video clip. As a result, they do not need a
very long time to express their idea. Therefore, the teachers can use video clips as media when they are teaching writing narrative texts.
2.3 The Concept of the Study
