The effect of zimmer twins as digital storytelling on students’ writing narrative text

Dyah Wulandari; Siti Maria Ulfa; Arfiyan Ridwan

doi:10.25273/etj.v7i2.5434

The effect of zimmer twins as digital storytelling on students’ writing narrative text

Dyah Wulandari, Siti Maria Ulfa, Arfiyan Ridwan

Abstract

The objective of the research to compare of Zimmer twins website tool as digital storytelling than use nondigital in writing text narrative on students writing ability at the eleventh grade of MA Yayasan Sirojul Islam Sukolilo 2018/2019 academic year. Zimmer twins media is an animated movie maker based on the website for the students to create their short stories in movies with many emotion, etc. The sample of this research the Eleventh of MA YASI those are XI- 1 class as the experimental class, and the X1-2 class as the control class consisted of 20 students. The method in this research was a quantitative method. In addition, the design used was quasi-experimental research, and the instrument used a test. The research was taken by using non-random sampling. Moreover, this research was conducted through the following procedures: giving pre-test, applying treatments and giving post-test. The data analyzed and processed by using the statistic data calculation of ANCOVA by SPSS 23 program. The significant was shown by the students post-test mean in experimental class is 76.55 and the mean post-test in control class is 70.55. The result of the statistical hypothesis testing found from p-value was 0.000. It is lower than the level significant of 0.05. If p-value ≤ from the level significant 0.05. It means that H₁ was accepted and H₀ was rejected. In conclusion, Zimmer twins media can be effective as media teaching to writing ability of narrative text at the eleventh-grade students of MA Yayasan Sirojul IslamSukolilo.

Keywords

Digital Story; Narrative Text; Writing, Technology; Zimmer Twins

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