Author (Penulis)

Yuli Dwi Puji Lestari
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0089

Abstract

ABSTRACT Class Blog is website service that allows the users to publish something without any knowledge of HTML programming and it can be created and updateable easily and also as a media where they can interact with one to another. ClassBlog is appropriate source to be used in teaching writing especially descriptive text. The objectives of this research are to know the students’ writing descriptive text before and after being taught using ClassBlog and to find out the effect of using ClassBlog to students writing ability in descriptive text. This research adopted quantitative and the design of the research was one group pretest-posttest to investigate the effect of using Classblog on the students’ writing ability of the eight grade students at MTs AnNIDZOM BABADAN KEDIRI. The sample of the research was class VIII consisting of 31 students. This research was held in four meetings involved pre-test, first treatment, second treatment, and post-test. The researcher used the form of essay test writing descriptive text as the instrument to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researcher applied the scoring rubric of writing and using t-test to know the effect of the treatments. The SPSS data in the research showed the means of before treatment is 56,77, while the means of after treatment is 76,64. From this result the researcher found that the t-test is higher than t-table (11,453 > 2,042) and P value t-test is lower than level of significance of 5% (0.000 < 0,05). It can be conclude that teaching writing by using Classblog gives significant effect on students’ writing ability. Classblog is effective on students’ writing ability because this media was increasing the students writing ability. This result hopefully, Class Blog can be considered to be an alternative media in teaching writing. Keywords : Writing, Teaching Writing, Classblog.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-14

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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