Journal Review: ‘Increasing Writing Skills In Text Based Short Story Through Audio Visual Media’

Name : Anis Septianingsih

Class : 4E

NPM : 1910631060066

Journal : ‘Increasing Writing Skills In Text Based Short Story Through Audio Visual Media’ by Yuhartanti, Novia Juita, Yasnur Asri

Journal Review

            A journal by Yuhartanti, Novia Juita, Yasnur Asri called ‘Increasing Writing Skills In Text Based Short Story Through Audio Visual Media’ attempts to explain how the use of audio-visual media can be used to study the interaction of children and for them to absorb knowledge through what is seen and heard in. Audio-visual is used as one of the tools to reach a specific audience in a special role for the sake of achieving certain goals, in this case to improve students’ writing skills. Media teaching can heighten students' learning process which can in turn heighten the learning outcomes.

            To further find out whether audio-visual media can be effective in increasing students’ writing skills in text based short story, Yuhartanti, Novia Juita, and Yasnur Asri conducted an experiment at SMAN 1 Batang Anai in Padang. They chose a classroom action research as their method because it has characteristics that correspond to the research objectives, namely to increase the skill of writing short stories from the folklore texts through the application of audio visual media, and they chose a class of tenth graders majoring in social studies as their participant.

            The result of the research shows that the use of audio-visual media can increase the students’ writing skill. It also increases the activity of the students because the teacher is able to create a good atmosphere of learning so that it can result a positive attitude and self-confidence of students. At the time of learning, teachers have facilitated a series of activities that give the space for the emergence of student activity. The number of students who reach to KKM set with that achievement is 75%.

            There are not many advantages to this journal besides the audio-visual method that the researchers had proposed turned out to be successful in increasing the students’ skill in writing. Other than that, I would say that this journal was not thoroughly researched. The participants of this experiment were not that much either, with that kind of method the researchers should not have just picked one class, they could have at least picked two classes to represent the entire students. Their choice of words and diction in this journal were also very poor, they should have double checked the journal before releasing it. Otherwise, the readers will find difficulties in reading and understanding the content of the journal, and the main purpose of releasing it will be vain.