Abstract name : ariani dwi ratri student no. : 0906102050084 study program : english education title : the use of animation movie in increasing students’ writing ability in writing narrative text keyword: writing, narrative text, animation movie th e aim of this study is to e xamine whether the use of animation movie increases students’ writing ability in writing narrative text . quantitative approach with experimental study of pretest - postest control group design was undertaken to solve the problems faced by students in learning writing skill. the instrument used to collect the data in this study is the test in the form of written test. the result of th e test is analyzed by using writing criteria proposed by brown ( 2004). in addition, some statis tical formula were also used to analyze the data. t he results of the study showed there is a significant improvement on students’ performance in writing ability after