The Effectiveness of Using Short Story in Teaching Narrative Writing Skill at the Eighth Grade Students of 257 Junior High School East Jakarta in 2014/ 2015 Academic Year

assael, henry; dra. roslaini, m. hum; nurhandayani, m. pd;

ANA RISTIANA. NIM: 1001065016. The Effectiveness of Using Short Story in Teaching Narrative Writing Skill at the Eighth Grade Students of 257 Junior High School East Jakarta in 2014/ 2015 Academic Year. A paper; Jakarta, The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2015.
The objective of this research is to get the empirical evidence whether or not there is any effectiveness of using short story in teaching narrative writing at the eighth grade students of SMPN 257 Jakarta in 2014/2015 academic year. The method applied is an experimental research with pre-experimental design involving 32 students as the sample.
The analysis on the empirical data gives the results that the writing pre-test score: n = 32,
X
= 44.03, s = 9.06 and the writing post-test score: n = 32,
X
= 54.43, s = 5.6, after getting the data, the writer calculates the t-test. The computation of writing test shows tobserved of writing test = 10.50 and ttable = 1.69. It means that tobserved > ttable. The research comes to a conclusion that there is effectiveness of using short story in teaching narrative writing skill at the eighth grade students of SMPN 257 Jakarta in 2014/2015 academic year.
Based on the result of the research, it is very useful for students. In other words, in teaching learning process, using short story can be fun and interesting for students. For teacher: it can be used as alternative aid in teaching English especially in teaching writing. For institution: it is suggested that the principal can provide all necessary things that assist the implementation of teaching English.