THE EFFECT OF FACEBOOK AS MEDIA ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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.