www.socialbakers.com reported that in February 2013, Indonesia was placed as country with the fourth highest number of Facebook users in the world with the
number of users reached 47.165.080. It shows that Indonesian, including the school ages, are quite active in Facebook. In that social network, they feel free
and enjoy writing their thoughts, feeling, and opinions in informal way. Teachers can take benefit from students‟ activity in writing on Facebook.
They can enhance the students‟ writing habit by motivating them to write more and more not only in informal situation, but also in formal one. That is writing for
academic purposes. This may be done since they enjoy writing that way. Considering those conditions, I am interested in conducting an action
research of the X 2 students of SMA N 1 Kajen entitled “The Use of Facebook to
Improve Students‟ Skill and Increase Their Motivation in Writing Recount Texts”
to help the students improving their writing skill and motivation.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The reasons why the topic was chosen are as follows: 1
Writing is considered as difficult and complicated skill in learning English.
2 It is a need to develop students‟ writing skill because this skill is very
important considering that it is required to deliver communication when directoral communication is not possible.
3 Students feel uninterested, reluctant, and even bored with the common
writing activity so that teachers need to find new interesting way to teach writing.
4 Almost all of Senior High School students in Indonesia have Facebook
account. 5
Facebook offers an interesting way to practice writing, especially recount writing to tell past experiences.
1.3 Research Questions
The key point in this research will focus on improving students‟ skill and
increasing their motivation in writing recount text through the use of Facebook as media. Based on that key point, the problems in this research are formulated as
follows: 1
How does Facebook improve students‟ skill in writing recount text?
2 How does Facebook increase students‟ motivation in writing recount text?
1.4 Purposes of the Study
Considering the problems above, the objectives of this research are as follows: 1
To investigate the way Facebook improves students‟ skill in writing
recount texts. 2
To investigate the way Facebook increases students‟ motivation in writing recount texts.
1.5 Significance
The significance of the research can be explained as follows: 1
Practical Significance The result of this research hopefully will bring many benefits. For me
myself, it is supposed to be a good provision which will help me as a teacher in
the future. By using this technique, I hope that I will be able to teach more effectively, and the students will enjoy their learning, too.
For my junior in State University of Semarang, especially the students of English Education Program, the result of this research is supposed to be a good
material to increase their knowledge. This research is expected to give significant contribution to the teaching of
writing skill, too. It is expected that this research can offer alternative in teaching recount text all at once with attracting, engaging and motivating students to do the
writing activity. I also hope that this study can encourage teachers to take benefit from any tools around them by using it as a medium to teach English.
2 Further Research and Development
I hope the result of this research can be useful as a reference and empirical evidence for future researches. Furthermore, I hope this research will inspire other
researchers to do further research about the implementation of Facebook in teaching English in other specification or other genres.
1.6 Outline of the Report
