The Use of Authentic Materials in Improving Students' Writing Anecdotal Texts

This research was conducted to the third year students of Private Islamic Boarding Secondary School of Madrasah Ulumul Qur’an. Authentic materials in this research means to develop students’ ideas in writing. Authentic materials enable learners to interact with the real language and content rather than the form. Learners feel that they are learning a target language as it used outside the classroom. The aims of this study are to find out how do the use of authentic material (comic strips) in improving students’ writing anecdotal text and to find out the students’ obstacles of using authentic materials in writing anecdotal texts. The researcher used some techniques in collecting data such as giving some questions, tests, and questionnaire. The students have good comprehension on comic strips because they obtained satisfying result after answering the questions provided. The pretest and posttest were analyzed by using statistical formula. According to the result of the research, using authentic materials can improve students’ writing skill in writing anecdotal texts. It was proved by the increase of students’ score in pretest and posttest. In addition, after analyzing the questionnaire, it can be concluded that most of students gave some positive responses about authentic materials and also few of them faced some obstacles in learning through authentic materials.