Reading for many students is a boring and tiring activity, moreover it’s only a text without a picture. The problem is “How to make students interest to read a
narrative text and able to write a narrative text?” Students can read a narrative text short story easily by using British
Council Animation. They can watch an animation story with English subtitle below. It’s more interesting because it uses simple vocabulary and colorful story.
They can also watch, read, and listen the story and also play a game before start the story.
Technology development demands teachers to be more creative and able to use technology when teaching their students. Using British Council Animation
is a modern way to giving technology education for students in junior high school. By using this media, teaching learning process will be more interesting and fun.
1.3 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
I have chosen topic “The Effectiveness of Using British Council Animation as a Media to Improve Students’ Writing Skill in Narrative Text” for the following
reasons: 1
Writing is a skill competence that will be used in final examination test. From their writing, we can know their ability in English
especially their grammar and vocabulary. 2
Writing makes students active and creative to tell story in written form in their own opinion. Some 8
th
grade of Junior high school students
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shies to speak in front of class or give their opinion orally. So, writing becomes a way to express their opinion.
3 Narrative text sometimes boring because students only read the text or
picture story. If they watch a story, it will waste their time because it always has a long duration and they have to make the summary that is
confusing. 4
Teacher should be creative and innovative to supporting a new media in learning and teaching process. British Council Animation becomes
a modern media that will used to teach narrative text that is more interested than a book, picture and film, because they can watch,
listen, and read a simple story with short duration. 5
As an English department students and an English teacher in the future, I want to know how effective the use of British Council
Animation to improve students’ writing skill in narrative text.
1.4 Research Problems
The research problem in this research is the fact that students in junior high school are difficult to write grammatically correct and confuse to write a story in English.
1.5 Research Question
1 Does using British Council Animation influence the students to improve their skill in writing narrative?
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