IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF NARRATIVE TEXTS BY WATCHING CARTOON MOVIES AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF SPM WUSTHA DARUSSALAM BLOKAGUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

ABSTRACT
Qoni’ah, Romlatun. 2022. Improving students’ Writing Skills in Narrative Text by Watching Cartoon Movie in the Eighth Grade Students of SPM Wustha in academic year 2021/2022. Thesis, English Education Department, the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher’ Training, Darussalam Islamic Institute.
Key words: Writing Skills, Narrative text. Cartoon movie
This study is to see the process of improving students writing skill in narrative text for English grade of SPM Wustha Blokagung throught cartoon movie. In addition. this study also focused on carrying out to improve the students writing skills in narrative text through cartoon movie for eight grade of SPM Wustha Blokagung. The subject of this is research is 7 students of SPM Wustha.
The method used in this study in Classroom Action Research (CAR) which the writer work collaboratively with the English teacher. This study was conducted following kemmis whit the following procedure of action research: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The study carried out in two cycle. Each cycle consisted of two meeting. The observation, interview and test, were the data gathered in this study.
the result in this study indicate that there is improvement of the student skills in writing narrative paragraph. Most of the students gradually gained good score at the end of the cycle. The score of Minimum Mastery Criterion (KKM) of English lesson was 74. In the pre-test, there were only 1 students or 14,28% who had passed the KKM. Still, there were 6 students who had not passed the KKM or under the criterion. The highest score was 76 and the lowest score 50. Then, in the first cycle of post-test 1, there were 4 students who passed the KKM. If it was calculated into class percentage, it was gained 57,14%. And the improvement between pre-test and post-test 1with percentage was 13,48%. Next to do the post-test 2, The result of data from post-test 2 showed that the post-test 2 had 22,46% improvement from the pre-test. In the second cycle of post-test 2, there were 7 students who passed the KKM. If the was calculated into percentage, it was 100%