THE EFFECT OF USING ENGLISH MOVIE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

Abstract

This study was focused on the investigation of the effect of using Science Fiction
movie on students’ achievement in writing recount text. This study discovered the
effect of using English movie on students’ achievement in writing recount text. It
was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this
research was grade X students of SMA Negeri 1 Stabat divided into two groups,
namely experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by
using English movie, while the control group was taught by using lecturing
method (without movie). The instruments used to collect the data was writing
recount text. After the data were analyzed, it was found that the value of tobserved
was 4. 367 with the degree of freedom (df)= 68 at the level of
significance 0,05. It means that t-observed was higher than t-table (4. 367>1.
994). The result of this study showed that teaching recount text by using English
movie was higher than that by using lecturing method (without using English
movie). It implies that English movie is appropriate to be applied for writing
recount text.