Jufrianti M. Taneo Pengarang FRANSISKUS BUSTAN Dosen Pembimbing 3 Clemens Kolo Dosen Pembimbing 2 LAURENSIUS KIAN BERA Dosen Pembimbing 1

This research is entitled “Improving Students’ Ability in Writing Procedure Texts by Using Short Video”. The prupose is to know whether or not the use of short video is effective in improving the student’s ability to write procedure text, and this research was classified as action research. It was done in two cycles. The research was done with the participation of 30 students’ in third semester students’ of the English Study Program of Nusa Cendana University in the academic year 2023/2024. The data obtained during the research were qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were in the form observation checklist while the quantitative data were in the form of the students' scores. The subject was taught by short video for two cycle and then the writer collceted their data throuht a test . The result shows that mean of the post-test in cycle two is higer than that of pre test and post-test cycle one, which indicates that there are significant increase of students’ writing, The mean of the pre-test was 63.16 and it increased to the post-test cycle one to become 74.16, the post-test cycle two also increased become 87.17. In other words, that alternative hypothesis which says, Improving Students’ Ability in Writing Procedure Texts by using Short Video is effective. Therefore, teacher of English are suggested to use short video in teaching English, especially procedural text. Keywords: ability, writing, procedural text, short video.