be seen by assessing student s’ writing in pre and posttest. Using blog as one of
online portfolio can simply facilitate students to receive feedback from their teacher. In traditional portfolio, students gather their work to be assessed by their
teacher in particular time which usually in the end of semester. This way simply blocks students to receive feedback from their teacher and other students. In
contrast, writing is one of language skills that need two communication ways in both sides either from students to teacher and or students to students. So, using
blog to facilitate both teacher and students are significantly important to provide feedback in order to boost students’ writing skill.
Secondly, writing through blogging is extensively used in this technology expansion era. Nowadays, technology expansion surprisingly develops in many
sectors including language teaching. Especially in writing, the use of technology is preffered rather than the conventional one. Its efficiency and effectivity are
beyond the reasons. Moreover, writing through blogging is an innovative way to enhance writing skills because blog possess many services and features. So, it will
stimulate people to be less boring and creative in conducting writing.
E. Research Hypothesis
For testing the statistical hypothesis of this research, the formulation used was t-test. The purpose is to see to obtain the empirical evidence about the
effectiveness of blog on students’ writing of narrative text at Tenth Year Students
of SMAN 3 Tangerang Selatan.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the place and time of the study, method and design of the research, population and sample of the research, instrument of the research,
technique of data collecting, and technique of data analysis.
A. Place and Time of the Study
This study was conductedinSMA Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang Selatan. It is located at Jl. Benda Timur XI Komplek Pamulang Permai, South Tangerang City,
Banten. The researcher chose this school because it is using Kurikulum 2013 curriculum for tenth year students. The research started on April 15
th
to 20
th
May 2015. It was done by giving pretest, treatment and posttest to the tenth year
students. The writer has 4 meetings for treatment and 2 meetings for pretest and
post-test.
B. Method and Design of the Research
The method usedin this research was a quantitative method. “In quantitative
research the investigator identifies a research problem based on trends in field or on the need to explain why something occurs.”
1
This research directly attemps to influence a particular variable. When it is properly applied, it is the
best type for testing hypothesis about cause and effect relationship. Experimental design is apllied in this research. Creswell mentions that
experiment is used to establish possible cause and effect between dependent and independent variables.
2
This research adopted a single-group pre and postests design to investigate the effectiveness of using blog. In this design, a single case is observed at two time
points; pre-test and post-test. Changes in the end of study are presumed to be the result of treatment. In this design, no comparison group is employed. In this study,
1
John W. Creswell, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Boston: 2012, Pearson Education Inc., Fourth Edition, p.
13.
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Ibid.
