The Impact of Digital Storytelling on Students' Writing Skill

Writing is one of important skills in English. It is really useful to find an
interesting way in learning writing for the students. Digital storytelling approach Was carried out to be a way in learning writing. The goal of this research is to know whether digital storytelling improves students‟ writing skill. This research used pre-experimental design to investigate the impact of digital storytelling on students' writing skill. This study used quantitative method to analyze the data od tests (pre-test and post-test) and to analyze the questionnaire (open questionnaire). The participants for the study were 30 students of class 8-2 of MtsN 4 Banda
Aceh. In this research, it is found that the students writing ability score has
improvement from 56,6 to 77. It is also found that the value of sig. (2-tailed) <
0,05 or 0,000< 0,05 which means that there is a significant difference between the results of pre-test and post-test. Therefore, it can be concluded that digital storytelling is able to improve students' writing skill.