Reasons for Choosing the Topic

4 developing the feeling of excitement and enjoyment towards the teaching learning process.

1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic

The topic of this research is using video clips to improve students’ writing skills of narrative texts. There are some reasons why I choose this topic. First, I choose writing skills because writing an English text is more complex and difficult to learn for Senior High School students, it is not as easy as writing in their native language. They have to think and choose the correct vocabularies or diction which is very different from what they have in their own language. Therefore, they sometimes do not know what they want to write to express their thought and ideas. As a result, their scores in writing are not as good as other skills. Considering this fact, I am interested in searching what media which can support the English teaching learning process especially in teaching writing narrative text in joyful and interesting process. Second, the media which are used in this research are video clips which have not been used by many English teachers as media in teaching writing a narrative text. Most of English teachers only use common media, such as written narrative texts from textbook, written stories, comics, movies, etc. I want to use media that have been known by students. Many Senior High School students like music and often listen to music in their spare time. Students usually watch many video clips from many singers coming from Indonesia or foreign singers in television. If they 5 want to have those singers’ video clips, they can buy VCD or download from internet. Therefore, I am tried to use video clips as teaching media. By using video clips as teaching media, the teaching learning process will be more interesting for the students. Before the students try to write a narrative text based on the video clips, they can listen to the song and enjoy the moving pictures in the video clips. Interesting English song, music, and story in the video clips will stimulate them to start enjoying writing English text especially in writing narrative text. The lyrics and the interesting moving pictures can help students to explore and get the ideas of what they want to write. In other words, the students will use video clips as sources for students to write narrative text. Third, a narrative text is one of many text types teaching for Senior High School students. They have known about narrative texts since they were in Junior High School and many of them like reading narrative text because narrative texts can amuse and entertain them through the story itself. On the other hand, their abilities in writing narrative texts are not as good as their abilities in reading a narrative text. It will be better if they are able to write narrative texts as easy as they read narrative texts. Through video clips, the students will get ideas for writing an interesting narrative text by watching the video clips and listening to the song. 6

1.3 Statements of the Problems