ENHANCING ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS' DESCRIPTIVE WRITING SKILLS THROUGH ANIMATED SHORT FILMS AT SMA NEGERI 1BATANGTORU

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine whether the Animated Short Films is good to be applied in improving students' writing descriptive text. The number of samples in this study were 76 students who were randomly selected from XI-IPA 2 and XI-IPA 3 class. To get the required data, the writer used method under quantitative methodology by Class Action reasearch (CAR) Design. In this case the data and sample from students of SMA Negeri 1 Batangtoru  for the academic year 2024 - 2025. And as an instrument for collecting data, the writer uses a written test. After collected the data the writer analyzed and get the conclussion as athe result of this reserach. The result of the research showed that the students writing descriptive skill after using Animated Short Films. The finding can be show as in hypothesis testing were the increasing of the students' writing descriptive skill scores are categorized into the bad category. This can be seen from the average value of the pre-test writing, which is 61.25. While, after applied Animated Short Films categorized into the enough and good category. This can be seen from the average scores of students' post-tests in cycles 1 and 2, namely: 73.29 and 80.79. Based on the findings the hypothesis was accepted. So, there is a significant improvement of studnets’ writing descriptive skill through Animated Short Films. This research finding can be use by the teacher in order to improving the students’ skill in writing descriptive.