The Writing Ability in Descriptive Text of students Taught by Using Facebook

ABSTRACT

Yustari, Meyla Arih. 2013. The Writing Ability in Descriptive Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Facebook. Skripsi. English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisor: (i) Drs. Muh Syafe’i, M.Pd (ii) Mutohhar, S.Pd, M.Pd

Key words: Writing ability, Descriptive text, Facebook

 

Writing skill needs ability in developing ideas into sentences and paragraphs by considering logical, cohesiveness, mechanics, vocabulary and also grammatical correctness is difficult skill that requires teaching media to help the students. In fact that the students’ writing ability in descriptive text are still under the minimum criteria and found many errors are as proofs that the learning process needs an interesting media that can motivate and also help students in writing activity. Facebook is a kind of social network media that can be used as interesting media to motivate and help students in writing.

            The research about writing ability in descriptive text taught by using Facebook is conducted to find out whether there is a significant difference between the students’ writing ability in descriptive text before and after being taught by using Facebook.

            This quantitative experimental research about the students’ writing ability in descriptive text before and after being taught by using Facebook was conducted at the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 by using cluster random sampling and took class VIII.E as the sample of the research with 31 students.

            The result of the research shows that the students’ average score of writing descriptive text before being taught by using Facebook is 65.08 and the standard deviation is 9,15, it is categorized as “sufficient”. Meanwhile the students’ average score of writing descriptive text after being taught by using Facebook is 77.82 and the standard deviation is 5,29, it is categorized as “good”. Then from the hypothesis testing, I found that t-obtained is 7.8 while t-table is of degree of freedom 30 in the level of significant 0.05 is 2.04. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between the writing ability in descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Facebook.

            From the facts above, so that the writer suggests the English teacher may take the benefit of using social network media such as Facebook in teaching and learning activity especially writing activity so that students can be interested and help students to improve their writing ability. The students do not only use Facebook to make relationship or share their feelings, they can also use Facebook to help their ability in generating ideas especially in writing descriptive text. But in using social network media through internet access, the teacher also should pay lots of attention and controlling students from any inappropriate sites.

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

In this chapter, the writer presents background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, significance of the study, scope of the study and operational definition.

1.1    Background of the Study

Writing is a complex skill that relates to other language aspects such as grammar, vocabulary and spelling mastery to express ideas, thoughts and memories into written form, either in form of sentence, paragraph or composition which need some practice done step by step. The final product of writing is measured against a list of criteria which includes content, organization, vocabulary use, grammatical use and mechanical considerations such as spelling and punctuation.  According to Richard (1997:100) “learning to write well is difficult and lengthy process, because it includes anxiety and frustration in many learners”.

KTSP 2006 has stated teaching English at Junior High School is oriented to be able to master four language skills include listening, speaking, reading and writing. Beside master language skills, the students are also expected to be able to master language components such as grammar, vocabulary and spelling. The junior High School students are expected to be able to use English in communication orally or written.

At Junior High School level, the teaching of writing aims at developing students’ competences in expressing short and simple messages for interaction with people in the environment and in writing various text types which include descriptive, procedure, recount, narrative, and report texts (Depdiknas, 2006:287)

One of the materials which are taught in the eighth grade of SMP N 4 Kudus is genre such as recount, narrative, and descriptive text. According to Gerot and Wignell (1994:208), descriptive text is one of text type which has function to describe particular person, place, or thing.

Based on the interview with English teacher of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus, the writer got information that the students’ ability in writing descriptive text was still low and the students had low motivation during teaching and learning process.

The minimum passing score (Kriteria Ketuntatas Minimum) for English in SMP N 4 Bae Kudus is 75. But based on the students’ score in writing descriptive text of a class in SMP N 4 Bae Kudus, the writer found that there are students who still get score under 75 in writing descriptive text because of there were many errors in content of the composition, vocabulary and grammar. The first is that the students’ descriptive writing was not comprehensible because the content of the composition is not relevant to the topic. The second is the ideas of the students’ writing composition are not clearly stated because they are difficult to choose the appropriate vocabulary for their writing. Then the sentences which the students have produced are not well organized because of grammatical mistakes.

Besides the students’ writing ability which was still considered low, the students also had low motivation and not interested in doing task during teaching and learning process since writing activities are not interesting. Those problems may happen because usually the students are asked to compose sentences and paragraph without being given some clues so that they are difficult to express the idea. The writer gets information that the teacher also did not use media in teaching process and the teacher just give one chance for them to write the kind of genre. They only discuss what the text and to construct. Meanwhile, the students need much time to think what they are going to write. They need interesting media to attract them in writing activity.

Nowadays, people cannot be separated with the development of information and communication technology (ICT). The role of information and communication technology in our life is to help people interact with global world. The development of ICT especially internet access and its social media also has influenced the development of education. The use of internet access and social media at school give great contribution in the teaching and learning process. At school, the social media can be used as interesting media to teach English that can attract students’ attention and motivation to be enjoyed during teaching and learning process.

An interesting social teaching media is expected can motivate students in learning English. There are lots of media to teach descriptive text. One of interesting social media in teaching writing descriptive text is Facebook. Facebook is a social networking media that nowadays mostly used by people to make interaction and relationship through internet access. Irmawati (2012:10) said that the students can be motivated to be active in teaching and learning process especially in writing descriptive text by using Facebook in their writing activity. Through Facebook, students can find lots of information about someone’s description through profile picture and profile information features found in the Facebook account. By using Facebook as medium and its Facebook features, it can help the students to produce the descriptive text easily and also make teaching and learning process being interesting.

In reference to the explanations above, the writer is interested to conduct a research dealing with writing descriptive text by using Facebook. The use of this media is expected can increase the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Then the writer conducts a research entitled “The Writing Ability in Descriptive Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Facebook”.

             

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