ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching | |
Using Sequenced Pictures on The Flickr Social Network in Teaching Writing News Item for The Tenth Grade Students Of SMA 3 Purwokerto | |
Rufiah Ning Asrianti1  | |
[1] Universitas Negeri Semarang; | |
关键词: flickr social network; written news item text; writing ability; | |
DOI : https://doi.org/10.15294/elt.v2i1.1560 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
This study mainly aims at determining the effectiveness of using Flickr social network in teaching written news item text to improve students’ writing ability and also to find out the significant differencebetweenthestudentswhoaretaughtusingFlickr socialnetworkandthestudentswho are taught using conventional method (a sequence of pictures). The subject of my research was 64 studentsofX7andX8classofSMAN3Purwokerto.Theresearchappliedwasexperimental research.Byusingpurposivesampling,thestudentsofX8weretakenasthesamplesofthe experimentalgroupandthesamplesofcontrolgroupwerestudentsofX7.Inthisresearch,the studentsweretaughtusingFlickrsocialnetwork.Theresultofthisresearchwasfoundby comparing the result of pretest andposttest. I used t-test to find out the significanceenhancement. Basedontheresultoftheresearch,theresultoftheobservedt-valueishigherthanthecriticalt-value; observed t-value 3.24 and the critical t-value is 2.04, the result of the writing aspects in the posttestis higherthanthepretest,andthepercentageofthestudentswhogotthescore more than 60 in the posttest was 53% while in the pretest was only 16%. Therefore, it can conclude that using Flickr social network can effectively enhance students’ writing ability.
【 授权许可】
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