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C. Rationale
The success of language teaching can be seen from many factors. The success of teaching English in Junior High School generally can be seen from
the result of the last test or the test given in the end of each semester. Most of the tests are given in written. According to the basic competence stated in the
curriculum, the students of eight grade in the second semester must be able to expressing the meaning and rhetorical ways of short simple essay on recount
form accurately, fluently and acceptably to interact with the other people. The teaching of writing should cover activities that solve students’ problems in
writing such as 1 express ideas coherently, 2 organizing ideas unity 3 using vocabulary in context, 4 using correct grammar; and 5 using correct
punctuation and spelling mechanics. In the beginning of the academic year of 20102011 SMP Negeri 2
Sumberlawang determined the minimum requirement score or Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM for writing skill was 65. However, the result of the
writing test of the first semester was not good. Most of the students’ achievements lower than the minimum criterion. The indicators are: 1 most of
the students were not consistent in using choice of structure and vocabulary; 2 they cannot organize ideas; 3 they cannot use vocabulary in context 4 most of
the students did not know use correct grammar; and 5 the students got difficulties using punctuations and spelling. The problem could not only been
seen from the result of the test but also the situation of the class. The indicators
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of the class situation are: 1 It took long time to start writing class 2 they preferred talking to each other to doing task; 3 several students did nothing
when they were asked to work in group; 4 some students drew unnecessary thing when they were asked to answer written questions and 5 many students
were shy to express their ideas to other friends or other people. The problems could be caused by the strategy used by the teacher that
could not attract the students’ interest. That’s why the class situation was not alive. Creating a fun atmosphere in language teaching is a must. In other words,
the teachers are claimed to create an innovative teaching strategies. The innovation is done by implementing questioning technique and utilizing face
book in teaching writing. Question and answer technique is one of the controlled writing types that
encourages students a little more freedom in structuring sentences. Questions are useful to stimulate thinking and to shape their ideas. By using questions based
on the topic the students will answer the questions and use the answer to develop their paragraph more easily.
Face book is one of internet application which can be used as one of electronic media which support language teaching It is predicted that its
interesting features will be able to encourage students’ motivation. It is very popular among the teenagers. They can make a friendship among the user. They
can share with another user in face book. By using facebook , the teacher and the students can have relax interaction. It means that the students can express their
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idea and creativities. Using facebook can encourage the students to express their idea.
The use of facebook can be done by making group, namely Learning English with Fun. The researcher invites the students of VIIIA to join in the
community. First of all, he invited the students to join in Learning English with Fun. The members of the group were limited to the students of class VIII A and
other people who like to join.. Before the researcher used Learning English with Fun as the teaching media, he did the first step of teaching that was Building
Knowledge of the Field. The next, she asked the students to match the vocabularies with the pictures as the first material. The pictures and vocabularies
have been posted in Learning English with Fun and the students were asked to post their answer in “Discussion”. Teacher corrects the students’ answers by
posting the correct answers in “discussion” too. The teacher gave questions and answers to be matched by students to make students understand the past
sentences. Then, teacher gave incomplete model of text and asks the students complete it with the vocabularies given. Teacher gave other model of text and
questions to answer then asked them to revise their answers into a recount text and posted the result in the “Discussion” Next, the teacher asked the students to
work in group by answering the given questions and revised it into a recount text and posted in the wall discussion. Finally, the teacher asked the students to work
individually by answering the provided questions and revise the answers to make a good recount text and posted it in the discussion. In the third meeting
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teacher gave a writing test to the students. Teacher posted the test and asked the students to answer the questions based on the text. The students write their
answers in teacher’s “Inbox”. Then the result of the test calculated. Based on the result of the first cycle, the researcher does the second cycle. The researcher
repeats the action until there is a significant improvement in students writing skill.
The choice of using facebook to improve writing skill is because this internet application is very popular among the teenagers. Most of students of
SMP have an account on facebook. In this case the researcher predicted that most of the students spent their time happily on face book. It means that this
media will increase their motivations, in learning. By the increasing of their motivation, their eagerness on writing can be improved and it is hoped the
students’ writing skill will improve.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Setting of the Research
This study was carried out in SMP Negeri 2 Sumberlawang. It is located in Jati village, Sumberlawang District, Sragen Regency, Central Java. The phone
number is 02717007078. The e-mail is smpn2.sumberawanggmail.net
. The blog that can be accessed is blog.smpn2sumberlawang. The school is located in
the north part of Sragen regency, about three kms away from Sumberlawang district, so it is quite far to be reached by people from the city. SMP Negeri 2
Sumberlawang is a National Standard School SSN. It began in 2009. There are thirty three teachers and five administration staffs. Fourteen teachers have been
certified as professional teachers but only few have joined the workshop on Classroom Action Research.
The facilities are teachers’ office, headmaster’s office, administrators’ office, one small library with not more than 5000 books. It has a mosque, a
science laboratory, a computer laboratory, an electronic laboratory, two canteens, one student’s health unit, a counseling room, 8 toilets, sport hall,
parking area, a large yard with several trees around it. It has not language laboratory yet. The school is surrounded by fence of about two meters height.
There are farming area in the back, front and right side of the school. There are four hundred seventy three students in school. There are about thirty six to forty
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