THE EFFECT OF ANIMATED FILMS ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT GRADE X SMA PLUS BINABANGSA PEKANBARU Batdal Niati, Mukhaiyar, Yenni Rozimela Language Education Program, State University of Padang nia_weybe@yahoo.com. Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah siswa yang diajar dengan animated films memiliki keterampilan berbicara teks naratif lebih baik dari pada siswa yang diajar dengan picture story. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian ekperimen semu; nonequivalent control group pre-post test design. Sampel penelitian adalah kelas X.1 dan X.2. Kelas X.1 merupakan kelas control yang diajar dengan menggunakan picture story sedangkan kelas X.2 merupakan kelas experimen yang diajar dengan menggunakan animated films. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data penelitian adalah tes berbicara. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan independent t-test. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa siswa yang diajar dengan animated films mempunyai keterampilan berbicara teks naratif lebih besar daripada siswa yang diajar dengan picture story. Keywords : Animated Film, Picture Story, Speaking Skill, Narrative Text Introduction Speaking is one of the skills that should be taught at senior high schools. The students should be able to express meaning in transactional and interpersonal conversation (to get things done), functional spoken texts, and monologue texts in daily life contexts (Depdiknas, 2006:30). It means that the students should be able to communicate spoken language interpersonally, select the best expression that relates to the context of spoken language, able to show feeling and ideas and use language according to the function of the language itself, and able to express meaning of monologue texts. One of the monologue texts that should be mastered by the students is narrative text. It is learned by the students in each semester. According to Grace and Sudarwati (2006:115), narrative text is a text tells about fiction stories and containing conflict and resolution. It amuses and entertains reader’s interesting with imaginary. One of the aims of teaching speaking skill of narrative text is to enable the students to narrate or retell a story by using language meaningfully. The teachers need to use some techniques such as jigsaw, drama, dialogue, chain story, and role play in order to get the students afford retelling the story. They should also use various media such as film, picture story, tape recording, situational cartoon, and puppet show. The media are very important in teaching speaking skill of narrative text. Therefore, the teacher of SMA Plus Binabangsa Pekanbaru had been using picture story and tape recorder. These media were assumed to help the