Introduction THE RESULT OF THE RESEARCH

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CHAPTER IV THE RESULT OF THE RESEARCH

This chapter discusses the result of the collaborative action research conducted in the tenth grade class of SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali in the academic year of 20102011. It presents some findings and discussions about the implementation of using Edublog to improve the students’ writing skill. This research has three objectives. First, this research is to find out whether or not Edublog can improve the writing skill at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali and how far. Second, this research is to identify how effective Edublog is for the writing class at the tenth grade class of SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali. Third, this research is to find out the strengths and weaknesses of using Edublog in teaching writing at the tenth grade class of SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali. The result of the research described in this chapter is presented in three sections: introduction, research finding, and discussion.

A. Introduction

When the researcher was a teacher apprentice in SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali, she found that most of the students got difficulties in writing English. In order to find facts regarding the problem, the researcher did a preliminary research. Based on the data of the students’ pre-test results, the researcher found some indicators of the problems of students’ low competence in writing. Firstly, the students are not able to explore their ideas in writing. Secondly, students are not able to organize the text. They wrote without good text structure. Thirdly, students are not able to make grammatically correct sentences. Based on the texts of students’ writing, there were too many mistakes of pluralinations and tenses in sentences. Fourth, sometimes students’ diction in their writing is not appropriate. Finally, students are not able to apply the conventions in writing, like spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Nobody applied the right punctuation and capitalization, though they mostly wrote with correct spelling. Only few students wrote with incorrect spelling. commit to user Furthermore, based on the class observation, the researcher got the data of the students’ problem in the classroom situation when the writing class was going on. There are five indicators of the problem, namely: 1 Students often complain when they are asked to write a text. They said that writing was a boring activity. A student shouted, “Miss, yang lain aja miss. Bosen miss. Laa, mau nulis apa aku aja bingung. Ahh gak seru pokoke.” The others supported the first opinion. Besides the opinion above, the research also found that it was difficult for them to explore ideas. 2 Students often ask their friends when they want to express the meaning of a word in English. 3 Students often cannot finish their texts in time. 4 Some students do not pay full attention to the lesson. They preferred talking with others about other topic to paying attention to the lesson. This condition, of course, created noisy class. And 5 students are often doing non-academic activities. The researcher found few students playing games in their notebooks or using their cellular phones to access internet on ‘facebook’ and ‘twitter’. Based on the interview with some students of class X 1 SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali, the researcher found out some causes of the problems dealing with writing skill. The first, cause is the limited time allotment for writing. Teachers spent little or no time teaching the students to write. It means the students have a little practice in writing. The second, cause is that the teacher uses monotonous technique or media in teaching writing. It makes students bored and not enthusiastic to learn. The researcher offered a solution to overcome the writing problem in the classroom by using Edublog to help the students practice writing in more unlimited time and place, communicate with the other for getting comment in order to enhance their writing, improve students’ enthusiasm in teaching learning process, and lessen their boredom in writing. Edublog will be an alternative media for this case. This media can be defined as a form of online diary writing that is used as the place to write and share with others while writing is the language skill used and needed here. Now, blogging becomes one of the students’ hobbies; so that, it is an aspect that can motivate the students to write because of their interest. commit to user Blog can be a place for students to show off themselves and it also has features, such as posts and comments that help students to communicate with outsiders by sharing and commenting in their blogs. They have spent much time to write anywhere and anytime that cannot be limited in the classroom. The focus of the use of Edublog is the process of learning writing; there are prewriting, drafting, self-reviewing and peer reviewing, revising, editing, and publishing. Those can be done in this media. It will help them to make better compositions than before. In doing the research, there were targets that must be reached. First, the students could improve their writing skill; at least it shows that the mean score could reach 70 as the standard minimum score. Second, the implementation of using Edublog could be effective in teaching learning process of writing. Based on The Northwest Regional Educational, the instruction will be effective in the writing classroom if it includes: 1 instruction is guided by a pre-planned curriculum; 2 high expectation for students and teachers; 3 students are carefully oriented to lessons; 4 instruction is clear and focused; 5 learning progress is monitored closely; 6 students are re-taught, if necessary; 7 class time is used for learning; 8 standards for classroom behavior are explicit; 9 there are smooth, efficient classroom routines; 10 instructional groups fit instructional needs; 11 student-teacher interactions are positive; and 12 incentivesrewards are used to promote excellence. Error Hyperlink reference not valid.Error Hyperlink reference not valid.

B. Research Finding