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d. Reflecting Stage of Cycle 2
In the last meeting, the researcher still reminded the students to rewrite their story after they gained the comments from other students. Also the researcher kept
asking students to give comments on other students’ work. Since the students got
more explanation on grammatical construction, they could minimize their grammatical mistakes on their story. Moreover, most of the students gave
comments on other students’ story about grammar. Because of the regular uses, the
students could operate Edmodo well and effectively. The media, for accessing Edmodo such as Android and the internet connection, were prepared well.
The researcher also noticed that the students who had finished and mastered on the use of Edmodo, they helped their friends who had not done yet. Moreover,
they also lent their media such as laptop even their Android to their friends. Furthermore, some students also explored the features provided in Edmodo, one of
them asked the researcher whether they could connect to other students in this school. She also asked about educational games in Edmodo. Actually they could
connect to other students as long as they also had an Edmodo account. Then, if they connect to the teachers around this world, they could find learning games in
Edmodo. In addition, the students also implemented Edmodo for sharing information
about teacher’s availability in the school. At that time, there was a teacher who had a meeting outside the school, so the captain of the class informed the students in
Edmodo that the class would be free. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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B. To What Extent Edmodo Improves Students’ Writing Skill
In this part the researcher presents to what extent Edmodo improves students’ writing skill from the result of the pre-test and the post-test. Besides, the
researcher combines the questionnaires and interviews result. These data are used for answering the first research problem.
From the problems it is known that students did not feel interested in learning English because the teacher rarely prepared some media in the learning
process. In fact, Rao 2014 states that if media are introduced in the classroom, it will engage students’ enthusiasm in learning the language and motivate them to
learn more. Besides, when the students learned about a descriptive text, they were difficult to see the pictures provided in the worksheet. It was because the pictures
on the worksheet were poor and not clear enough, so the students could not imagine the picture well. Therefore, the researcher provided them with the media which can
confront all the drawbacks happened in the class. That medium was Edmodo. According to Cauley n.d,
“Edmodo is a site that takes the ideas of a social network and refines them and to make it appropriate for a classroom.” Thus,
because of its appropriateness for a classroom, the researcher implemented it in her research. Besides, on Edmodo, all kinds of files such as word, images, video, audio
and even links can be attached Thompson, n.d., p. 7. Moreover, he also adds that Edmodo is great for writing projects p. 6. Its greatness was proven from the result
of the pre-test and post-test done by the researcher. The result of the data was counted using Excel see table 4.1. It was known that the mean of the pre-test was
60.4 and the post-test was 77.2. Moreover, the t score was - 6.68 p-value 0.05. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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