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but traditional classroom based language learning still remains a backbone for language education. Furthermore, “The Effectiveness of Facebook Groups on Teaching and Improving Writing: Students‟ Perceptions by Yunus and Salehi indicated that this study attempted to investigate the students‟ perceptions on the effectiveness of Facebook FB groups for teaching and improving writing. 36 The authors saw a need to carry out this study as it provides a platform to discover pedagogical implications that would benefit the Y-generation in terms of improving their writing skills in a Malaysian ESL context. The respondents of this research comprised 43 third year students completing their bachelor‟s degree in TESL, in the Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia UKM. The students‟ perceptions were measured through a questionnaire comprising 10 close-ended items and 3 open-ended ones. Respondents were required to participate in a Facebook group created by the researchers. The Facebook group, called „Write Out Loud‟ was hosted by Facebook here: http:www.facebook.comhome.php?sk=group_193133474042344ap=1. The findings showed that „Facebook groups‟ is an effective tool in improving the students‟ writing skills, especially in the brainstorming of ideas before the actual writing. The results of this study may be beneficial to ESL educators in incorporating ICT into their teaching repertoire. In contrast, “The Effectiveness of Using ICT Information Communication and Technology on Studen ts‟ English Achievement” by Mardi a skripsi at UIN Jakarta showed that the result of this research using ICT is more difficult than using non-ICT. 37 So, the students‟ English scores taught by using non ICT are better than those who were taught by using ICT. In other words, the null hypothesis is accepted or there is no significance influence of using ICT in teaching English. This research used a Quasi-Experimental study which applied pre-test and post-test in both 36 Yunus and Salehi, op. cit., p. 87. 37 Teni Mardi, “The Effectiveness of Using ICT Information Communication and Technology on Students‟ English Achievement”, Skripsi, Jakarta: UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2011, not published. experiment class and control class. He did the research for six meeting by using ICT when teaching English to the first grade students of SMP Darussalam Ciputat.

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