Research Type Subject of the Research

English teacher were used. After the data were collected, they were transformed in the form of field notes, questionnaire, and interview transcripts. A digital camera, observation guide, interviews guide, questionnaire and pre-test were the instruments for collecting data. The observation guide was used to describe what happened in the classroom. It was used in the reconnaissance and action steps. In the reconnaissance step, the observation guide was used to find out the problems faced by the teacher in the writing class. In the action step, the observation guide was used to see the implementation of the actions and the successes of the research. Questionnaire was used to get data related to the English teacher’s and students’ feelings about the condition of teaching and learning process before and after the implementation of the actions. In the reconnaissance step, the questionnaire was used to find out the problems faced by students. The questionnaire was used to find the students’ perception toward the English lesson, the difficulties in learning English, the techniques, the materials, the teaching media and the activities. Interview guide was used to complete the data that hadn’t covered yet by using questionnaire. This instrument was used especially to interview the teacher focuses on the teacher’s perception toward students’ writing ability, the students’ involvement during the lesson, the techniques, the materials, the teaching media and the activities. It was also reinforced the result of questionnaire by interviewing some samples of students along teaching and learning process of writing in the class. Pre-test was used to collect the students’ writing ability and problems by seeing their result before the implementation of Facebook group.

F. Procedure of the Research

To conduct this action research, the action research steps were followed by suggestion of Kemmis and McTaggart 1988 in Burns 2010:9. The action research model can be seen below: Figure 2: Action Research Model by Kemmis and McTaggart 1988 in Burns 2010:9

1. Reconnaissance

In this first step, the school problems were found and analyzed. In this study, the teaching and learning process were observed, diagnostic writing test and questionnaire were given and interviews were conducted with some students of class VIII E of SMP N 1 Pleret and the English teacher, and discussions were held with the school principal. Based on the observations, the questionnaire, the interviews, and the discussions, the existing problems were classified. They are the problems related to