| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this research was to know whether or not the use of Facebook
as media has significant effect on descriptive text writing achievement. Based on the
aim of this research, the researcher used experimental research design. In this
research, there would be two variables; dependent and independent variable. The
dependent variable was the students‘ writing achievement, while the independent
variable was media Facebook. More specifically, this research would use quasiexperimental
research with post-test only control group design. The research subject
was the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Gambiran. There were two kinds of data in
this research, primary and secondary data. The primary data was taken from the test.
It deals with students‘ English scores. Meanwhile, the secondary data was taken from
the results of writing test and observation. The collected data were analyzed
statistically by using t test formula. This analysis was useful to know whether the
mean difference was significant or not between the experimental group and the
control group.
Based on the result of data analysis, it can be said that using Facebook as
media in teaching learning process gave a significant effect on writing achievement
of the tenth grade students of senior high school. It was proved by the results of the
output of independent sample t-test by using SPSS on previous section, the
significant column value of t-test was 0.000 and it was less than 0.05. It indicated that
the result of t-test analysis was significant.
From table scores of posttest, it can be seen that the experimental group who
was taught writing by using Facebook as media in teaching learning process got
better scores compared to the control group who was taught writing without
Facebook. Based on the result, the students in the experimental group were more
active than the students in the control group. It happened because the students in the
experimental group were so interested in writing a descriptive text using Facebook
group. It helped them write the description easily.
It was suggested that the English teacher of the tenth grade of senior high
school apply Facebook as the teaching media, especially in teaching writing. It was
easier for students to organize their ideas especially in a descriptive text by using
Facebook. Besides, the use of Facebook as media in teaching learning process were
interesting and providing stimulus to the students for using language in productive
skills, especially in writing. | en_US |
