Instruments and Data Gathering Technique

39 2. Questionnaire The data from questionnaires was presented in percentage. The formula of the students’ answers is as follows: Notes: : percentage of students’ answers. : the number of students who answer. : the total number of students who finish the questionnaire. After the percentage of students’ answers was known, the formula was used to find out the average of each student ’s answers were as follows: ̅ Notes: ̅: average of each student’s answer. : total percentage of students’ answers. : the number of questions. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 40

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The outline of this chapter is divided into two parts that provide research results and discussion in each part of research question. The first part is research results and discussion of students’ narrative writing skill improvement through the use of digital storytelling. The second part is research result and discussion of students’ perceptions on the use of digital storytelling in learning activities in class.

A. Research Results and Discussion of Students’ Narrative Writing Skill

Improvement through the Use of Digital Storytelling In this part, the first question of research questions was answered regarding to whether or not the use of digital storytelling helped 8 th grade students to improve their narrative writing skill. CAR was applied in order to analyze the students’ narrative writing skill improvements. The improvements of the students’ narrative writing skill were limited in terms of four aspects of writing. The 8A class of SMP Negeri 1 Yogyakarta consisted of 35 students with the different kind of narrative writing abilities. They had given three times of narrative writing tasks. The detailed of students’ narrative writing skill results are described in Table 4.1 on the next page. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 41 Table 4.1. The Results of Students’ Narrative Writing Skill SN NARRATIVE WRITING TASK 1 NARRATIVE WRITING TASK 2 NARRATIVE WRITING TASK 3 C O L M S C O L M S C O L M S 1 22 13 12 2 61.25 24 15 18 4 76.25 24 17 21 4 82.55 2 24 17 21 5 83.75 26 18 20 5 86.25 26 19 21 5 88.75 3 22 17 22 4 81.25 24 15 23 4 82.5 22 16 18 4 75 4 17 10 18 4 61.25 - - - - 22 13 19 3 71.25 5 24 13 18 5 75 25 15 17 5

77.5 27 18 22

5 90 6 17 10 11 3 51.25 - - - - 17 10 7 3 46.25 7 24 17 23 5 86.25 26 18 21 5 87.5 29 20 24 5 97.5 8 24 18 18 3 78.75 27 18 21 5 88.75 - - - - 9 17 10 11 3 51.25 - - - - 17 10 7 3 46.25 10 23 17 18 4 77.5 25 15 21 5

82.5 27 18 25

5 93.75 11 24 17 22 4 83,75 26 18 22 5

88.75 27 19 21

5 90 12 22 16 21 5 80 25 19 22 3

86.25 -

- - - 13 22 14 21 5 77.5 27 18 24 5 92.5 28 19 23 5 93.75 14 21 14 17 3 68.75 22 13 15 3 66.25 - - - - 15 22 14 18 4 72.5 22 17 17 3

73.75 25 18 21

2 82.5 16 22 15 22 4 78.75 22 14 21 4 76.25 26 18 21 4 86.25 17 26 17 19 5 83.75 - - - - 26 16 21 4 83.75 18 23 15 20 4 77.5 25 18 17 4 80 27 19 21 3 87.5 19 21 13 17 4

68.75 17 10 12

2 51.25 - - - - 20 19 12 22 5 72.5 24 17 22 5 85 27 19 22 5 91.25 Notes: SN : Student Number C : Content O : Organization L : Language Use M : Mechanics S : Scores Table 4.1 shows the results of whole narrative writing tasks that were done by 20 students. There were 8 students who did not complete the writing tasks. Meanwhile, the rest of the students are described in the next page. 42 Table 4.1. The Results of Students’ Narrative Writing Skill continued SN NARRATIVE WRITING TASK 1 NARRATIVE WRITING TASK 2 NARRATIVE WRITING TASK 3 C O L M S C O L M S C O L M S 21 21 14 19 5

73.75 -

- - - 17 11 13 4 56.25 22 21 12 15 3

63.75 -

- - - 19 10 11 4 55 23 22 13 19 4

72.5 24 17 18

4 78.75 - - - - 24 22 15 17 3

71.25 27 18 19 3

83.75 29 19

22 3 92.5 25 25 18 22 3 85 24 19 18 4 81.25 27 19 23 5 92.5 26 26 18 23 5 90 21 14 24 5 80 28 19 24 5 95 27 24 15 19 5

78.75 22 13 21 5

76.25 28 18

24 5 93.75 28 14 9 10 2

43.75 13 7

8 2

37.5 -

- - - 29 24 17 23 3 83.75 - - - - 22 15 18 3 72.5 30 13 7 10 4

42.5 -

- - - 22 10 18 3 66.25 31 25 17 17 3 77.5 26 18 19 3 82.5 24 16 21 4 81.25 32 22 15 20 4

76.25 23 16 20 4

78.75 25 17 19 3 80

33 25 16 18 2

76.25 25 17 18

2 77.5 22 15 20 2 73.75 34 16 8 10 2 45 - - - - 16 8 12 2 47.5 35 17 10 18 5 62.5 23 14 19 4 75 19 13 21 5 72.5 Notes: SN : Student Number C : Content O : Organization L : Language Use M : Mechanics S : Scores Table 4.1 shows the whole three meetings of students’ narrative writing tasks in one cycle. From 35 students, there were 20 students who followed the whole three meetings and finished the narrative writing tasks completely. 15 students did not complete the whole tasks. In this case, this research focused on those 20 students see Table 4.2 on the next page as participants of this research since they completed the whole tasks.