THE EFFECT OF ANIMATION FILM ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEX

This study aims at finding whether animation film significantly affects on students achievement in writing. This study was conducted by using experimental design. The population of this study was grade ten of Dharmawangsa Medan and the total sample was 70 students. Two classes were chosen through random sampling by using lottery technique. One class was used as the experimental group and another class as control group. The experimental group was taught by using animation film while control group was taught by using lecturing method. The instrument used in this study was written test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of computing the t-test obviously showed that t-observed is higher than t-table (3,24> 1,67) with the degree of freedom 68 (df = N-2) at the level significance 0,05 one tail test. It showed that the application of animation film gives significant effect on students achievement in writing.