Background
Writing is a language skill which focuses on the activity of expressing opinion that is produced in written form. Writing
is the ability of students to arrange ideas from one paragraph to another and make an effort to link ideas effectively and
consistently so that they are meaningful. Based on curriculum 2013 students in Senior High School are expected to write
several texts Such as descriptive, recount, procedure, and narrative. In this research, the researcher focuses on narrative
text. The researcher did the preliminary research by interviewing the English teachers of SMKN 1 Poso, the students’
ability in writing narrative text is still low, and it needs improvement because there are many students unable to write a
narrative text grammatically and lack of vocabularies. Some reasons for the case are students often feel bored when they
learn in the classroom with conventional teaching. The other reason is, there is no motivation of the students to study
and write, so teachers need to give motivation to the students. The teacher has to be creative in developing medium,
strategy, and method in teaching writing to solve this problem.The researcher intends to use the silent video. By using
silent video, the students are expected to be more interested in learning and able to write a narrative text based on the
correct structure and features of the text itself.
Problem Statement
The objective of the Research
The significance of the Research
Students are expected to be able to improve their ability in writing narrative text and the technique can motivate the
students to learn writing well, and student’s interest in learning.
Teachers The researcher hopes it will give the alternative technique in teaching writing, especially writing narrative text.
Other researchers This research could facilitate the other researchers to enrich their knowledge about teaching writing
by using silent video
The scope of the Research
Operational Definition of Key Term
Writing: Writing is the act of expressing the ideas through minds in the written form.
Writing Ability: Writing ability means students able to write a text with the correct content where main ideas started
clearly and accurate, well organized and perfectly coherent. Use very effective choice of words, no grammar errors, full
control of complex structure and mastery the mechanics.
Narrative text: Narrative text is a text that retells a story that happens in the past.
Silent Video: Silent video is one of a kind visual-audio, such as Chaplin and Co. This video is mute, has no dialogue and
any utterance, Only has non-verbal expression and gestures.