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The teacher can choose many kinds of visual aid but they must pay attention to the importance of the visual aid for the teaching learning processes, and many
more questions related to it. Visual aid has an important function that the teacher can use in teaching and learning process; visual aid can also give the students an
opportunity to extend their ability and to explore their talent. Most visual aid makes the student easily understand and comfortable with the material of the
lesson in the writing class. In my opinion, films are enjoyable and attractive. Most people love to watch
films because it is very interesting. An animated film is usually simpler than any other film. It has simpler plot and clear characteristics of the actors so that the
story can be easily understood. That is why I choose an animated film as a media to help students write a narrative text. At last, I hope that the student will be more
interested in learning writing narrative since it is an interesting genre that can be used by students to explore and share ideas, opinion, and their experiences.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The reasons why I choose the topic of teaching narrative in Senior High School are:
1 Narratives are included in the current curriculum and taught in grades X,
XI, and XII. 2
Narratives are interesting genre because they use imagination so that the students can produce a text freely, without any limitation.
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3 An animated film is a kind of media which can be used as an interesting
material to attract students. Teacher can use it as a learning material so that the students feel that learning English is fun.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
In this study, the problem is stated as follows: To what extent the use of an animated film can improve student’s ability in
writing narratives?
1.4 Objective of the Study
Based on the problem mentioned above, the objective of the study is to: Find out to what extent an animated film increases the ability of students in
writing a narrative text.
1.5 Significance of the Study
I hope this study will be helpful for English teachers, students, and also would-be teachers of English.
For teacher: Film and many other literary works can be used as media of teaching writing.
In addition, hopefully this will give teachers inspiration in improving their teaching method so that they can attract students and finally improve the student’s
mastery of the material that they taught.
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For students: From the animated film, they will get pictures and sounds to build up the
meanings of the film. They will get clearer picture of the construction of narratives. They will understand more about how to construct a good piece of
narrative text with appropriate staging and lexicogrammatical features. Moreover the exercise given in the action are supposed to be beneficial for the students
knowledge about many significant things in written narrative text such as the grammar, diction, mechanics, punctuation, and ease of communication.
For would-be teachers of English: Hopefully they know in more detail how to teach narrative text based on the
curriculum for Senior High School student’ and in the future, they can apply it in teaching and learning English process.
1.6 Outline of the Study
