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two kinds of test which had been done, before and after the action. The test which was conducted before implementing the action was to know students’ prior
knowledge about writing a narrative text. After the students got the action and experienced it for about two times, the researcher gave them a post-test to know
whether there was improvement while they used the action or not.
c. Questionnaires
In this part, the researcher used questionnaires to get the answer from both first and second formulated problems. Based on Johnson and Larry 2012
“Questionnaire is a self-report data-collection instrument that each research participant fills out as a part of a research study p. 197.” The researcher distributed
the questionnaires to all students of the class. It was given after they experienced Edmodo. The distribution of the questionnaires were done two times because the
researcher did not check the total number of printed questionnaires. It must be 34 sheets but the researcher only got 24 sheets. So, the researcher had to come to school
and to give the other questionnaires to the students. In fact, the researcher had noted the name of students who did not fill the questionnaires so that the researcher would
not miss the students who have not done it.
2. Data Gathering Technique
In this section, the researcher describes how the data were gathered. Before the researcher decided to choose this topic, the researcher observed what
students’ problems while having the learning process in the class. From July until October
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researcher tried to approach the students and asked them why they were not really interested in learning English. Some of them told that they were boring with the
class, the learning process was just monotonous, there were a lot of assignments and the teacher rarely used the media to attract students’ motivation in learning
English. Then, the researcher tried to find out deeper information related to their problems in their English class. At that time the researcher taught the students about
a descriptive text. When they learned about it, the researcher provided them with some pictures. Unfortunately, there were some students who complained about the
handout given which was not readable. The picture provided was also not clear enough so that the students were difficult to see and to describe it clearly.
Besides, it was impossible for the researcher to copy the handout using colorful ink whereas the total number of students were 34. It will cost much money.
In fact, the researcher is a student who cannot earn money by herself yet. That was why after finishing her teaching practice there, the researcher came to help students
overcome their problems in their English class. In addition, the English teacher in that school also supported this research even one of the teachers there asked the
researcher to give a small simulation for other teachers to use Edmodo.
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1. Interview
Interview was done in a qualitative way, the researcher began with specific information, noted any patterns about the data, formulated one or more the
hypothesis and finally develop general conclusions and theories Merlter, 2009. In other words, the researcher made a narrative report about the results of interview.
The researcher made sure the data got were interpreted in an accurate way without minimizing the data or changing the data. So, the researcher presented the data that
had been analyzed as it was.
2. Test and Questionnaire
After the students did the pre-test and the post-test, the researcher marked their writing using the rubric. It can be seen in appendix 6. After giving the score,
the researcher input their score into Excel bar. Then, the researcher counted the input score using t-test: two-sample assuming unequal variances. Next, the
researcher noted the mean of pre-test and post-test. After that, she counted t Stat p value 0.05 to state whether Edmodo is an effective media or not.
Furthermore, the researcher analyzed the final data using descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics is a method of data analysis to summarize and to
organize the amount of numerical data Mertler, 2009. For the questionnaire, the researcher counted the total number who chose every agreement degree manually.
However, to count the final data the researcher used Ms. Excel program. Therefore, the researcher input the data into excel. The formula used to get the result of the
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