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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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Then, it is clearly shown that t score was less than 0.05 it means that Edmodo was an effective medium
to improve students’ writing skill.
Table 4.1 t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Unequal Variances
Pre-Test Post-Test
Mean 60.4
77.2 t Stat
-6.68
In addition, to answer the first formulated problem in this research, the researcher also combines the results of the questionnaire. The researcher provides
the table of the percentages of the questionnaire. In fact, the researcher changed the form of the questionnaire result into a picture. Moreover, the researcher gives
explanations how many percentage each statement gained and what is the integration among the statements. The researcher does not only interpret the
questionnaire in a full explanation, but also does she give the brief explanation to help readers simply understand the content of the questionnaire. However, the
original form of the questionnaire is in the appendix 3 which used
Bahasa Indonesia
, in the figure 4.1 is the English one. The first statement of the questionnaire showed that most of students agreed
that learning English using media was more enjoyable and motivated. It was proven from the percentage that 88 of the students agreed and only 9 of the students
who disagreed. The others did not give the response toward this statement. In the second statement there were 80 of the students who agreed and 20
of the students who did not agree about the easiness of accessing internet. Next, there were 68 of the students who agreed and 32 of the students who disagreed
that they used the internet to access their assignments. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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