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Writing is one way to communicate in English by expressing the ideas through organizing our thought into good arrangement of written text. It involves the mastery of all elements in the target language such as organization, content, grammar, punctuation, spelling, mechanics, and also style and quality of expressions. It involves complex process. The writer considers that writing is the hardest skill for people who learn English because in writing process, students will face many difficulties in transferring thought and ideas in writing form. One of this problems solving is by using interactive medium such as documentary video. This study is about the effectiveness of documentary video as media to improve news item text writing skill of the tenth grade of SMA N 1 Kaliwungu Kendal in the academic year of 2010/2011. The statement of the problem in this study is; how effective is the use of documentary video to improve students ability in writing news item text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Kaliwungu Kendal in academic year of 2010/2011? The objective of this study is to find out the effectiveness of documentary videos as media in the teaching of news item text writing for the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Kaliwungu Kendal. The population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Kaliwungu Kendal. The research method was an experimental research, which conducted in two classes; the experimental group (X C) and control group (X F) was. The X C was taught by using documentary video, while the X F was taught without documentary video (using text). The writer gave writing test to gather the data. There were two test; pre test and post test. The formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine whether there was a significance difference between students score in experimental group and students score in control group. After the data had been collected by using test, it was found that the pretest average of the experimental group was 63.6 and control group was 62.7. While, the post-test average of the experimental group was 76.7 and control group was 70.7. The obtained t-test was 3.029, whereas the t-table was 1.67 for a = 5%. The t-test score was higher than the t-table (3.029 > 1.67). It was meant that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected. Since t-test score was higher than the t-table, documentary video was effective media in improving students news item text writing in SMA N 1 Kaliwungu Kendal. Based on the finding, the writer assumes that documentary video may be used as one of alternative medium in the teaching writing of news item text. Based on the data, there was a significance difference in the achievement between students in class X C who were taught news item text through the use of documentary video and students in class X F who were taught vii news item text without using documentary video (using text only). It was meant that the use of documentary video as media in the teaching of writing news item text was very effective. Documentary video could be used to stimulate students consentration, sensation, attention and desire. Beside that, documentary video constructed students critical thinking and built students ideas. Finally, documentary video could help the achievement of learning success.
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