Abstract
The most difficult part of writing is students could not organize the development of their ideas and the purpose of the text.Digital storytelling is one of the multimedia to improve students' writing competency. The main objective of this research is to prove whether the digital storytelling enhances and improve students writing competency. The study uses classroom action research (CAR). The data in this study are quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data will be collected by using the essay test. The qualitative data will be collected by using observation, field notes, and questionnaire.The results of the use of digital storytelling in writing text significantly increased by using digital storytelling. The score of students’ writing descriptive text kept increasing from pre-test until post-test. It was proved by the data which showed that the mean of the students’ score in post-test II (86.4) was higher than the post-test I (72.2), and also higher than the pre-test (54.8). in addition, the response of student in using digital storytelling in the agree category, it can be seen from the frequencies of item 110 (52.88%).Therefore, Digital Storytelling significantly improves students’ score in writing Descriptive Text. Furthermore, it can be concluded that Digital Storytelling is effective to be used in teaching writing skill, especially in Descriptive Text.
Highlights
The subject of English writing is present throughout the teaching and learning in the education curriculum in Indonesia
The difficulty of complexity writing text can be seen from students' ignorance to the mechanical requirements such spelling, punctuation in making the cohesion and the coherence of writing clearly to get the purpose of the text
The action is the plan that is carefully considered one which includes some deliberate interventions into the teaching process
Summary
Teacher in every content area can use writing as a powerful learning tool to help students' reflect on what they read, what they listen to, and work out their own thinking and through a process on paper. In the process of teaching and learning English as a foreign language, writing is very complex and the most crucial skill in learning English. The difficulty of complexity writing text can be seen from students' ignorance to the mechanical requirements such spelling, punctuation in making the cohesion and the coherence of writing clearly to get the purpose of the text. Et al (2009) state that when learning to write, students may have trouble generating content, creating organizing structures, formulating goals, executing the mechanicals aspects of writing, and revising the text and reformulating goals.
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