Abstract:
The objective of this comparative research is to find out whether there is significant
difference of the ability between female and male of the third year students of English
Study Program FKIP UR Pekanbaru in writing a synopsis of movie. The problem that the
writer intends to discusss in this paper is concerned with the writing ability. The reason
for choosing movie as the media in writing synopsis because this audio-visual could be
understood easily by the students because they could watch, hear and comprehend the
storyline directly. So the students require paying more attention and concentration about
the problems in writing synopsis. Besides, it can give a contribution to other teachers to
confer some information in choosing the appropriate method in teaching. By doing this
research, the writer assumed that the students have comprehended about writing
synopsis. Based on the research finding, it is clear that female students’ achievement is
different from male students where females are better than males in language learning
which is also evidenced by some theories, namely Oxford (2002) states that “females are
superior in verbal skills, while males are superior in spatial skills. In other hand, in this
research the students’ achievement in writing synopsis of movie, the writer found out: the
score of female is higher than male in writing synopsis of movie and the theories from
some researchers are true that female students are better than male students in language
learning. The assumption of people that the female are better in writing is true. In this
research, with the ranges score both of them are statistically (significant) in writing
synopsis of movie.
