THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING WRITING IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING EDMODO (An Experimental Research at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Ngrambe in the Academic Year of 2016/2017)
| Main Authors: | Zum’arini, Juni Solechah, Dra.Hj., Woro Retnaningsih, M.Pd. |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/1354/1/SEMUA.pdf http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/1354/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Zum’arini Juni Solechah. 2017. The Effectiveness of Teaching Writing in Descriptive Text by Using Edmodo at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 2 Ngrambe in the Academic year of 2016/2017 (An Experimental Research) Thesis. English Education Department, Islamic Education and Teacher Training Faculty. Advisor : Dra. Hj. Woro Retnaningsih, M.Pd Key words: Writing, Descriptive, Edmodo, Picture, Experimental Design This research aims at finding out whether there is or not significant difference between students who are taught by using Edmodo and who are taught by using Pictures. The observation of the research showed that the students had problems in writing elements: content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic. They also could not do the process of writing properl. The research was carried out at SMP Negeri 2 Ngrambe. The research method was Quasi-Experimental research (Pre-test and Post-test Design). The total population students of the seventh grade were 213 students from seven classes of SMP Negeri 2 Ngrambe in the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher chose two classes of seventh grade as the samples of the research. The sample was selected by using Cluster Random Sampling. The samples are class VII C as the experiment group which consists of 30 students, and class VII E as the control group which consists of 30 students. The experiment class is a class that was taught by using Edmodo, while the control class is a class that was taught by using Pictures. There are five meeting to each of classes. First meeting was for pre-test, three meetings were for treatments, and one meeting was for post-test. First, the students were given pre-test to each of classes. In the treatments, the experiment class, students were taught by using Edmodo as the media and the control class, students were taught by using Pictures as the media. Then post-test was given after the treatments to each of classes. In this case, data which are analyzed are pre-test and post-test scores of the two groups, the experiment group and the control group. The mean score of post-test in experiment class was 66.07, while the mean score of post-test in control class was 62.03. The mean difference between them was 4.04. The result of t-test computation between post-test score in experiment and control class that ( > . It means that there was significant difference between the students who are taught by using Edmodo and who are taught by using Pictures in teaching writing descriptive text for the seventh grade. Ha is accepted when is higher than , while H0 is rejected.