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evaluate students’ writing. Moreover, to give meaningful evaluation, the researcher adds some written feedback for the students, both on their writing pre-test and post-
test. The first feedback was given on their worksheet and the second one was on their Edmodo account.
5. CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH CAR
According to Mills 2007, as cited in Mertler, 2009, action research is about developing the professional disposition of the teachers and the teaching profession.
Action research can be a breakthrough for teachers to always pay attention on how well they teach in the classroom and whether the way they teach is effective or not.
They can always reflect what teaching practice they have done, so that it allows them to develop continuously their teaching practice.
There are numerous models of action research, in this research the researcher used
Mertler’s model 2009 which have four stages in each cycle. They are planning, acting, developing and reflecting stage figure 2.2.
Figure 2.2 The Process of action research adapted from Mertler, 2009
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T he researcher prefers to choose Mertler’s model because it has detailed
information. It is used to resolve specific problems and improve students’ learning.
Every stage on this model has a step or some steps to be done such as: a planning stage, in this stage there are four steps; step 1 which is identifying a topic for
research, step 2 which is limiting a topic, step 3 which is gathering preliminary
information, step 4 which is reviewing the related literature; b acting stage, in the
second stage, the researcher does step 5 and 6 where the researcher applies the action, collects and analyzes data; c developing stage, this stage only consists of
one step which is step 7. The researcher conducts this step by revising, changing and improving future action; d reflecting stage, the last stage in this model is
composed of steps 8 and 9 where the researcher shares, communicates the results and reflects the process.
By the four stages have been mentioned, firstly the researcher did the planning stage where the researcher gathered the information about the problems
and reviewed on related literature about the topic. Secondly, the researcher conducted the acting stage where in this part the researcher implemented the action,
collected the data together, and analyzed the data. Thirdly, the researcher developed the next action or it can be said as a developing stage. The last is reflecting stage
where the researcher thought carefully and deeply about the process of the research.
B. Theoretical Framework
In this research, there are two formulated problems. The first problem is to what extent the use of Edmodo
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educational website that can be used to share information, ideas, and knowledge. Moreover, teachers can upload various kinds of file such as audio, video, picture
and links. So, Edmodo answers students’ and teachers’ problems in the classroom. English itself has four basic skills that need to be mastered. One of those
skills is writing. Writing is a process of thinking, drafting, and revising that produces a product. Given a medium
to express students’ idea in a form of writing might help them to improve it better. Edmodo can be a medium for students to learn
English easier and more attractive. In order to answer the first formulated problem, the researcher tried to compare students’ writing work before and after
implementing Edmodo. To implement Edmodo in the classroom, the researcher gave the students
some tasks that are stated in Nation theory. Next, the researcher evaluated students’
work using Glencoe’s writing assessment. Through implementing Edmodo, the
researcher hopes she could gather the information about the first problem. Moreover, the researcher compared the result of previous study that was done by
Apriani about the extent of the use of E dmodo to improve students’ writing skill.
The second problem is the advantages of the use of Edmodo which was applied in the eighth graders, E class of SMP N 1 Yogyakarta. To answer this
problem, the researcher combined the theory from ISTE, Bayne, Kara and Thompson that have been discussed before and added the idea of students to dig the
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