THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING FACEBOOK GROUP ON STUDENTS DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP ASWAJA KUNIR

LUTHFI SULISTIANA RAHAYU, 2813133067 (2017) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING FACEBOOK GROUP ON STUDENTS DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP ASWAJA KUNIR. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Rahayu, Luthfi Sulistiana . Registered Number Student 2813133067. 2017. “The Effectiveness of Using Facebook Group on Students Descriptive writing acievement at second grade of SMP Aswaja Kunir.” Thesis. English Education Program. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Nanik Sri Rahayu, M.Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, Facebook Group, Writing Achievement, Descriptive text Considering that writing is the most difficult to master. Students may be confused what they want to write because they didn’t have idea even though the teacher has given the topic. Within the rapid changes in technology, the use of ICT has largely influenced the way learners write. In educational aspect, we know that the education world is moving toward the use of technology. Learners love everything related to technology and internet, so that new technology is highly motivator which we can take advantages. The well-known ICT such social networks also have been widely used by teacher across the nation to their teaching especially in teaching writing. This study examines the use of one of social networks which is familiar to the young learner especially for junior high school students, Facebook Group, to improve the students’ skill in composing descriptive text at SMP Aswaja Kunir. The formulation of the research problems were: “Is there any significant difference on the students’ descriptive writing achievement taught before and after being using the facebook group?” Based on the formulation of research problem, the purpose of this study was to find out whether the use of social networking site (Facebook group) is effective in teaching writing of descriptive text or not. The design of this research was pre-experimental design with quantitative approach in the form of one-group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this study was all students of second grade at SMP Aswaja Kunir, Blitar. The sample was VIII A class which consists of 20 students by purposive sampling. The research instrument used by the researcher was test (pretest-posttest). The researcher was used IBM SPSS 20.0 Statistics to analysis data. The finding showed significant differences between the result of pretest and posttest. The mean of post-test scores (79.10) was larger than the mean of pre-test scores (67.10), the different mean is 12.00. It means that the student score is increasing from previously. The student achievement was getting better based on T-test analysis used by the researcher. The score of tcount compared with ttable gotten was use SPSS 20.0. Tcount 17.061 and by using degree of freedom (df) = 19. The finding showed that sig-value was 0.000. an sig level 0.050, we know that sig value was less than 0.05 (0.000<0.050). Thus, there was enough evidence indicating that the null hypothesis could be rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, and it could be concluded that using Facebook group was effective to increase students’ writing skill in descriptive text for second grade students at SMP Aswaja Kunir. By those finding it can be concluded that Facebook group can be applied by the teacher during teaching and learning process especially in teaching descriptive text writing.

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