THE USE OF ANIMATED CARTOON VIDEO IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

Human being produced a language for interacting others. Both learning and teaching progress In language learning, learners sometimes have problems in writing paragraph, especially writing descriptive text.  One of the solutions to improve students’ writing is by giving animated cartoon video. This research employs qualitative method with research subjects Junior High School Students in Bojonegoro. The purpose of the research is first to describe the use of animated cartoon video in teaching descriptive text. Second, to know to know the students’ responses toward the use of animated video in teaching descriptive text. The subject was Eight (8)-B . The research instruments used are classroom observation and interview. The researcher carried out in 2 meets up. Every meets up teacher gave the homework in different cases, the cases were about “donald duck” “boboboy” and  Upin and Ipin. The result shows that the use of animated video such as Upin Ipin, Donald duck are effectively improve the students ability in writing descriptive text. Students are able to describe the characters from the animated video completely. Moreover, students are happy when animated videos are used as a media in teaching descriptive text. The used of animated cartoon that commonly spoken has succeeded. It might be concluded  that the teaching animated cartoon  for descriptive text could support learners’ thought to write descriptive text vividly.

Keywords: Descriptive Text, Animated Cartoon