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“Manfaatnya banyak banget, contohnya bias belajar sambil bermain, bias cari hal-hal yang baru dalam belajar bahasa inggris baik soal maupun
short story, dan bias mengeluarkan aspirasi kita untuk dibagikan kepada orang lain.” Rosiana
D. Discussion
This section presents the discussion of the research findings focusing on students’ writing skill and classroom situation. In more detail, each of the findings
is presented as follows.
1. Student blog is able to improve students’ writing skill
The implementation of student blog as teaching-learning media had improved the students’ skill of writing. The focuses of the research involve five
aspects of writing skill: content of the text, organization of the idea, vocabulary mastery, language use, and mechanics. The findings show that those aspects had a
higher final achievement after the research. The improvement of ideas writing is shown in the finding that some texts
contained social messages and some others were combined with imaginative ideas. It was also organized nicely so that the topics were developed into
interesting texts and could communicate the messages well. This result is supported by Bram 1995: 25 who states that the purpose of writing is
communication. Furthermore, Warschauer 2010 says: Blogs, wikis, automated essay scoring, and open source netbooks are four
important tools that can assist writing instruction. …thoughtful use of these tools can enhance effective instructional approaches that emphasize writing
for meaningful social purpose, mastery of relevant genres, and development of students’ academic language proficiency.
The students got improvement in their vocabulary mastery and the language used. Through the commenting session they shared opinions, while in
the other task they re-read their own writing. They implicitly learn from mistakes which were mostly related to the vocabulary and grammar. It gives them chance
to reflect their learning. This finding is supported by Mynard 2007; 2008 who claims that blog is a medium to reflect on specific aspects of the students’
learning. However, the findings does not show significant difference in students’
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control of grammar used as Bloch 2007 notes in his article that blogging does not really take effect in grammatical control.
The students had become careful in writing, especially related to punctuation and the spelling of word. Hedge 1998: 8 says that writers need to
punctuate meaningfully, so that the readers get the intended messages. In addition, Warschauer 2010 states that blog is one of important tools which can assist
writing instruction and lead to meaningful writing, mastery of relevant genres, and development of students’ academic language proficiency.
2. Student blog is able to improve situation in the writing class
