The Use of Webtoon To Improve Students’ Writing Ability (A Study at MAN 2 Banda Aceh)

This research aimed to determine the use of Webtoon as a learning media to improve students' writing ability for second grader students of MAN 2 Banda Aceh. The media used in this research is Webtoon, a comic online that presents interesting pictures and narratives. The researcher used quantitative method and the data were collected by using pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire. The sample was chosen by using simple random sampling, which is use a randomly shuffled lottery. Thus, there are two class were selected; the experimental class and the control class. This data was calculated by using analysis univariate and bivariate. The result showed that students have improved their writing ability. It was proven by the improvement of the mean score of students’ pre-test and post-test (50.67 to 71.75). Moreover, the T-test showed that the t-table was less than the alpha value 0,001>0,005. It meant that, has a significant improvement in students’ writing scores after receiving treatment through the use of Webtoon. Besides based on the analyses of students' responses in the questionnaire, most of the students were interested, motivated and easier to generate ideas.