

INTRODUCTION English has been recieved and admitted as an international language. Keywords: Writing, Natural Disaster Video, and News item Text A. Thus, the use of natural disaster videos is worth implementing as the media to teach writing news item. From the latter fact, the students could make up a good concept to begin composing their news item texts.

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The media gave two basic information for the students. The result showed that the application of the media could enable the students to write a news item text. The study offers natural disaster videos as the applied media to teach writing a news item text because the videos provide sufficient information for the students to start working with their composition. Generally spoken, the use of media may encourage the students to follow the teachers’ instruction clearly as the media provide direct stimulus for the students to learn the productive skills. The use of media is suggested to be used in teaching process. The teachers should be creative in teaching writing. This case causes them reluctant and unable to do the task well. NATURAL DISASTER VIDEOS AS MEDIA TO TEACH WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Amiruddin Hadi Wibowo Universitas Negeri Surabaya Abstract Many students experience many difficulties in writing a composition if teachers only give them titles to work. PROSPECTS, Jurnal Humaniora, Sains, Pendidikan dan Pengajaran, Volume 5, Nomor 2, 1-7, November 2015.
