PROCEEDING OF SHEPO 2020 (International Conference On Social Sciences & Humanity, Economics, And Politics) 160 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MULTIMEDIA STORYBOARD IN TEACHING WRITING OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Andry Setiawan Islamic University Of Kalimantan andstwwnn@gmail.com Hengki Islamic University Of Kalimantan Supiani Islamic University Of Kalimantan ABSTRACT Writing is a process of putting through ideas in word then combine into sentences in a form of paragraph in which every sentence is related one to another. This skill is one of the language skills which inform us the researcher’s ideas in the written form. It is one of language skills learnt by students in their school. For almost students think that writing is unbearably difficult, because the factors could be lack of students’ understanding in grammar, lack of students’ ideas, and students can not imagine something that could be used in their writing. , many students made some mistakes and faced difficulties to build and develop their imagination. the most important thing should be done by the teacher is to prepare appropriate media and choose an effective technique in teaching writing. One of the way is through using multimedia storyboard. The multimedia storyboard conducts the students through the series of picture in bringing up the students ideas’ to write what they have been seen in storyboard. This research is aimed to find out: To identify whether the students taught writing of descriptive text by using multimedia storyboard have better score on the post-test than on the pre-test.This research is using pre-experimental research design by using pre-test and post-test with quantitative approach, because the researcher want to established possible cause and effect between dependent and independent variable. The researcher is intended to describe the effectiveness of multimedia storyboard toward students’ ability in writing descriptive text for the second grade students by comparing between the students’ score before being teach by multimedia storyboard and after being teach multimedia storyboard. There is any significant different score before and after the students gets a treatment using multimedia storyboard. Keywords : Multimedia; storyboard; writing 1. INTRODUCTION Writing is a process of putting through ideas in word then combine into sentences in a form of paragraph in which every sentence is related one to another. Patel & Jain (2008: 125) described that “writing is essential features of learning a language because it provides a very good means of spelling, and sentence pattern. This skill is one of the language skills which inform us the researcher’s ideas in the written form. It is one of language skills learnt by students in their school. For almost students think that writing is unbearably difficult, because the factors could be lack of students’ understanding in grammar, lack of students’ ideas, and students can not imagine something that could be used in their writing. Furthermore, many students made some mistakes and faced difficulties to build and develop their imagination. This opinion is supported by Richards and Renandya states that writing is the most difficult skill for second language learners to master (Jack C, Richard and Willy A, Renandya 2002: 303). Kemp and Smellie (1989:3) stated that media will make the instruction more interesting. One of the way is through using multimedia storyboard. The multimedia storyboard conducts the students through the series of picture in bringing up the students ideas’ to write what they have been seen in storyboard. Multimedia provides a complex multi-sensory experience in exploring our world through the presentation of information through text, graphics, images, audio and video, and there is evidence to suggest that a mixture of words and pictures increases the likelihood that people can integrate a large amount of information. Students learn best by seeing the value and importance of the information presented in the classroom. Pea (1991) pointed out that “ multimedia is less restricted than written text. A multimedia storyboard is a better media in motivating students in the teaching of writing for certain genres like descriptive, report and explanation text. The feature of this media is using slide presentation which is combined by audio/video, text, animation, sound effects and the interactivity. Its goal is to guide the students visually in writing a descriptive text as they looking at the picture together with the text. Actually, the students are guided from word until they are able to build a good and correct sentence 2. METHOD This research is using pre-experimental research design by using pre-test and post-test with quantitative approach, because the researcher want to established possible cause and effect between dependent and independent variable. The researcher is intended to describe the effectiveness of multimedia storyboard toward students’ ability in writing descriptive text for the eleventh grade students by comparing between the students’ score before being teach by multimedia storyboard and after being teach multimedia storyboard. This research is classify as pre