THE EFFECT OF TWITTER AUTOBASE @ENGLISHFESS TO
THE STUDENTSAo ABILITY IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT Miftahul Isnaini1.
Nurlaili2 English Language Department.
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muslim Nusantara Al-Washliyah.
Medan.
Indonesia Email: miftahulisnainisiregar@umnaw.
id, nurlaili@umnaw.
Abstract : The objective of the research was to determine whether there was a significant effect of the use of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess to the studentsAo ability in writing procedure text.
This type of research is quantitative research and was conducted using two classes as research samples, namely class X-D as the experimental class consisting of 35 students and class X-C as the control class consisting of 35 students.
In the data collection technique, the researcher conducted a pre-test, treatment and post-test by giving a test in the form of an example of a procedure text.
The results of this study indicate that there is a significant effect of using Twitter Autobase @Englishfess to the studentsAo ability in writing procedure text.
This can be seen after the data was analyzed, the mean of the experimental group was 74, 45.
Meanwhile the mean of the control group is 64, 28.
This means that the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Lubuk Pakam apply Twitter Autobase @Englishfess in learning procedure texts higher than those without Twitter Autobase @Englishfess.
After testing the research hypothesis, it turns out that the hypothesis is accepted.
Keyword : Procedure Text.
Writing Skill.
Twitter Autobase INTRODUCTION English is the international language that is used by people in the world.
English is the foreign language or second language in every country.
In learning English, students require to learn four major English skills, such as speaking, listening, writing, and reading.
Among the four major, writing is one of the important skills that has to be mastered.
As stated by Klimova .
writing has a unique position in language teaching since its acquisition involves a practice and knowledge of other three language skills, such as listening, reading and speaking.
However, writing is not as easy as people think.
There are some reasons why writing becomes the difficult skill.
The effective writers are noted for having a range of vocabulary, getting the grammar right, punctuating meaningfully, spelling accurately, using a range of sentence structures, and linking information across sentences to develop the topic, developing and organizing the content clearly and convincingly (Durga & Rao, 2018:.
means that the writer should master these several things at above.
If the writer can master these things above, the readers can understand and there will be no In teaching writing for high school students, there were some problems that are faced by students.
For instance, sentence structures, dictions, coherency, and etc.
Dealing with studentsAo motivation, they sometimes were faced to a barrier that can keep them from learning.
Also, the students were still not able to make a good simple sentence.
In addition, students got many difficulties in understanding English, especially in interpreting a paragraph or producing a written text.
They often made Therefore, teachers needed to find the interesting way to remove those educational obstacles so that students can learn and grow.
One of the ways that can be used as an interesting tool for teaching writing is social media.
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In the context of writing, incorporating social media such Twitter seems is one of the effective tools for improving writing skills since it can be adapted to studentsAo As Indonesian English language learners in the twenty-first century, where technology such as smartphones, laptops, and internet connections have become an unavoidable part of daily life, and social media has become a way of life.
Twitter is a micro-blogging that people used to write a discussion on a homepage of a person (Ekinci, 2018:.
One of the most popular auto-bases that students use for the purpose of learning English is @Englishfess.
The @Englishfess autobase has tweeted 63 thousand times and has 761 thousand followers since it is created in February 2021.
Through this autobase account.
Twitter users can ask anything related to learn English and discuss problems related to English.
It can make students easier to comprehend the writing text given.
The effective media, the students can be applied for students learning writing.
It can be concluded that Twitter can be used as a tool to improve studentAos Twitter can help students to improve their writing skill.
Twitter is easy to use and the students will enjoy learning The use of Twitter can make language more accessible for students by making it easier to integrate and contextualize writing activities.
Moreover.
Twitter can be used to motivate the students to learn writing and make the students easier to learn writing in teaching and learning process.
Thus, this study desire to know how is Twitter Autobase @Englishfess implemented in writing ability and How does the use of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess improve studentsAo writing abilities.
RESEARCH METHOD
In this research, the researcher used the quantative through experimental design.
According to Cresswell .
quantitative research asked specific questions to obtain measurable data on variables through instrument then analyze those using statistical procedures.
This design was utilized to determine whether Twitter autobase @Englishfess might effect studentsAo writing procedure text or This research was conducted using two classes as research samples, namely class X-D as the experimental class consisting of 35 students and class X-C as the control class consisting of 35 students.
The researcher obtained this research sample utilizing cluster random sampling, it indicates that both of classes were chosen at random.
The instrument of collecting data was procedure writing test.
The researcher administered a writing test to find out the effect of studentsAo procedure text writing ability after using of Twitter autobase @Englishfess or not.
In the data collection technique, the researcher conducted a pre-test, treatment and posttest by giving a test in the form of an example of a procedure text.
To analyse the data, the researcher gained the data from the test.
In finding the results of tests that were done by students, namely the test of writing a procedure text and to prove the statistical hypothesis, the researcher used the test formula to analyze Oo[( Where:
Ma : mean of experimental group Mb : mean of control group : the deviation of experimental : the deviation of control group Na : the total sample of experimental JELLT (Journal of English Language and Literature Teachin.
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: the total sample of control group
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
The experimental was conducted in class X-C and class X-D of SMA Negeri 2 LubuK Pakam.
Below are the result of pretest and post-test of the two class, namely the experimental class and control class which were used as research.
Table 1
Result of the StudentsAo Score in Pretest and Post-test of Experimental Group
Initials PrePost-test
N=35
Total OcX1 = OcX2 = Deviation of the test .
= X2 Ae X1 Deviation of Experimental Group .
= Deviation of the test Ae Mean Mean of the test = = 74,45 Table 2 Result of the StudentsAo Score in Pretest and Post-test of Control Group Initials Pre-test Post-test JELLT (Journal of English Language and Literature Teachin.
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OcX1 = OcX2 = N=35 Total Deviation of the test .
= X2 Ae X1 Deviation of Experimental Group .
= Deviation of the test Ae Mean Mean of the test = = 64,28 From the data above, it is obtained that:
= 74,45
= 64,28
= 528,60
= 3285
= 35
= 35
The data obtained from the studentsAo scores in pre-test and post-test were from two groups.
The data were adapted to the t-test of formula.
The presentation of the data was shown as below:
Oo[( Oo[( Oo*( Oo Oo The result of computing the t-test from SPSS shows the sig .
-taile.
is 0,000 which they are less than 0.
It means that Ha is accepted meanwhile Ho is rejected.
According to calculation, it is possible to infer that the use of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess has a significant effect at tenth grade of SMA Negeri 2 Lubuk Pakam.
It can be concluded that the effect of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess in writing procedure text is quite success.
It means the ability students in writing are better because the students have remembered how to write procedure text by the use of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess in writing procedure text.
CONCLUSION
After the researchers conducted research, the conclusions that can be The studentsAo ability in writing procedure text by the use of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess is better than without Twitter Autobase @Englishfess.
The studentsAo ability in writing procedure text without the use of Twitter Autobase JELLT (Journal of English Language and Literature Teachin.
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@Englishfess is not better than Twitter Autobase @Englishfess because after analysed the data, the researcher found that t-test.
The experimental and control group was shown up, it was seen from the result of the test that the researcher gave to the students where the mean of experimental group is 74,45 meanwhile, the mean of control group is 64,28.
It means that hypothesis (H.
is rejected because the alternative hypothesis (H.
of the research was It means there is significant effect of the use of Twitter Autobase @Englishfess in writing procedure text of SMA Negeri 2 Lubuk Pakam.
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