English Focus Vol. 2, No. 1,2018 p-ISSN: 2614-638X ; e-ISSN:2614-6355 website: http://englishfocus.upstegal.ac.id/efj/ DOI:10.24905/efj.v2i1.54 Copyright @ 2018 Universitas Pancasakti Tegal The Use of Youtube Videos to Develop Students’ Writing Skill in Narrative Text Fajar Prihatini 1*) , Yoga Prihatin 1) , Naras Sani 1) 1 English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Pancasakti Tegal * ) Corresponding author: Email: prihatinifajar@gmail.com ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to find out whether there is positive effect of applying Youtube videos on the Grade XI students’ writing skill of Senior High School. The instrument used in this research was writing test about narrative text based on Youtube videos. The test was conducted after the two groups got treatment for 6 meetings. The test is carried out to find out whether students who were taught by using Youtube videos get better writing skill than students who are not taught by using Youtube videos. Data analysis of this research was tested by using t-test in order to find out whether the research hypothesis was accepted or not. Based on the calculation, the t-ratio is 2,998. It was consulted with t-table on the significant level (α) of 5% and the degree of freedom (df) was 38. The t - table obtained was 1,686. It proves that t-ratio is higher than t-table (2,998>1,686), so the hypothesis of the research is accepted. Furthermore, the conclusion of this research is that Youtube videos give positive effect on the writing skill to teach writing to the students who are taught by using Youtube videos. It is suggested for the teacher to apply Youtube videos in the teaching writing. It can be used to solve the students’ difficulties in writing narrative text. Therefore, they can improve students’ writing skill. Keywords: youtube videos, writing, narative INTRODUCTION Language is one of the texts that must be mastered by students in Indonesian high schools. The goal of teaching and language learning is how the students are able to communicate in their daily life. This communication ability includes both spoken and oral forms. As it is formulated in the curriculum, the students must be able to develop communicative competence in written as well as in spoken to achieve functional literacy level (Depdiknas, 2006). In the curriculum, specifically for writing skill competence, the students need to develop ideas to express meaning and rhetorical structures through simple texts using written language varieties accurately, fluently and appropriately in daily life context to interact with others. The texts that need to be acquired are in the form of procedure, descriptive, recount, narrative and also report. In other side, it is not easy to achieve this goal.