THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING VIDEO DOCUMENTATION TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH IN RFL CLASS

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to find out the improvement of students’ writing skill deals with vocabulary for the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sungguminasa, Gowa. This research used quantitative research method by conducting pre-experimental design, where in this method the researcher used one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this research was the seventh grades students of SMPN 1 Sungguminasa, with the total number of population are 256 students and sample was 32 students. This research consists of two variables they are Independent variable the use of videos documentation and dependent variable the students’ ability to write descriptive paragraph.The result of the data analysis shows that the students’ vocabulary in post-test was greater than mean score of pre-test (29.67>41.15), the improvenment was 38.70% from post-test and pre-test score. The value of t-test in term of vocabulary was greater than the value of t-table (13.27 > 2.453).Based on the explanation it can be included that the video documentation improve the students’ in writing skill in terms of vocabulary at the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sungguminasa, Gowa.