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ABSTRACT Iink Rahmawani (2318026) The Effect of Using Powtoon Animation Video toward Students Writing Achievement on Descriptive Text at Mas Al Manaar Batuhampar. A Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education, State Islamic University (UIN) of Bukittinggi, 2023. This research was done due to several problems that found by the researcher: the students had difficulties in expressing their idea, the students had low motivation to write English text, the students had difficulties in writing sentence in grammatically. Powtoon animation video related to this problem because powtoon is one of technology that can be used as media in teaching writing. Powtoon is one of interesting media that can made students interest and increase their achievement. This research aims to find out the effect of using powtoon animation video toward students writing achievement on descriptive text. This research was conducted to the tenth grade of Mas Al Manaar Batuhampar. In this study, the researcher used quantitative method with pre-experimental design by comparing the students’ pre-test and post-test scores. To determine the sample, the researcher used total sampling technique because there just only had one class as experimental class. The subject of this study tenth grade that consist of 26 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used writing test as an instrument of this research. To analyze the data, the researcher used inter rater reliability to test reliability of the instrument test. To test the hypothesis, the researcher used t-test (α) = 0.05. Based on the calculation pre-test and post-test. The result shown that there were significant difference on the students writing achievement after taught used powtoon animation video. The students mean score of the post-test was 78,65, it is bigger than mean score of pre-test was 49,49. The researcher used t-test formula by comparing score of pre-test and post-test through SPSS. Based on the output statistic, the value of Sig (2-tailed) is 0,00 0,05. It means that Ha is accepted. It means that the students who are taught using animation video is better than the students who are taught before using powtoon animation video. In short, powtoon animation video has a significant effect on students’ writing achievement on descriptive text at Mas Al Manaar Batuhampar.