Improving Students’ Writing Skills Through Interactive Multimedia

Abstract

This research aimed to figure out the improvement of students’ achievement in writing recount text through interactive multimedia. This study applied classroom research. It was done through planning, action, observation, and reflection and in 2 cycles. The location of the research was SMK PAB 3 Medan Estate Jl. Mesjid. The subject of this research was tenth grade students which consisted 23 students. The instrument for collecting data of this research was writing test. In this research, students wrote a recount text based on the video. Table revealed in the post-test cycle I the mean of the students’ score was 71.87 and there were only 8 students who got score up to 75 points. The table showed the students’ achievement in writing recount text was still need to be improved. In order to get higher improvement in the number of students who got score up to 75 points in the second cycle, there were 21 students getting score up to 75 points with the percentage 86.96% and the students’ mean score was 82.35. These number showed that the application of interactive multimedia could improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. During apllied interactive multimedia the students gave more attention and enjoyable to wrote recount text. So the application of this media was effective.