Animated Short Movies: Does it Have Effects in Teaching Narrative Text Writing for Junior High School Students?

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of animated short movies in teaching writing narrative text skills. The populations of this study were ninth-grade students in a Junior High School in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. This study was only carried out on one class consisting of 16 students. The results of this study showed that the mean score of the post-test after the treatment was 89.06, which significantly higher than the mean score of the pre-test of 76.87 before the treatment. This is evidenced by the t-test results that show an improvement, indicating that the use of animated short movies has several effects and positive impacts on the quality of students' narrative writing. These effects makes the approach of teaching writing narrative text using animated short movies can be one of the effective strategies that can be used by teachers in a relaxed and enjoyable teaching process.