Edmodo can help students have discussion with the teacher outside the

47 Figure 4.5 S tudent’s comment about language practice From the figure 4.5, it is shown that by giving comments on Edmodo, he could express his idea that the language used by the writer was not clear enough and it was needed to be fixed. Therefore, it proved that Edmodo could help them to do their language practice. From the interview, some students also added more information related to the advantages of Edmodo in the use of giving comments. Student 5 felt that by giving comments on other students’ work, they could pay attention on the use of verbs. Moreover, the comments given would be permanent and not disappear. Thompson also mentioned that Edmodo had an excellent memory to keep all the work done by students and teachers, so they would not lose their work. They could open it anytime, if someday they forgot. Student 2 also added that the comments given could improve their writing. Furthermore, student 3 said that they could learn grammar through those writings. Thus, Edmodo was helpful for the students and teachers in the learning process because it could provide a safe and an interesting learning medium, it could help the students to have discussion with the teacher in a separated place, and it PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 48 could ease the students to give comments on other students’ work. Nevertheless, there were others who found the drawbacks of Edmodo, especially when it was used in their learning process. So, in this part the researcher presents about the drawbacks of Edmodo, it was supported by the result of the interview below. The students did bullying, they mocked each other. He also added that the students were not on time in sending the assignment, they liked to postpone it student 5. It commonly happened in the learning process that the students liked to be the procrastinator in doing their assignments even though it is posted online Bayne, n.d, p. 2. Next, Edmodo was not conducive, the students talked about something else that was not related to the materials student 4. Even there were some students who did not focus on the learning especially those who sat in the back. They tended to play a game, an Instagram and others. Then, the assignments posted in Edmodo had been explained yet, so it was better to be given for a home assignment student 3. In fact, all the interviewees argued that Edmodo needed a good internet connection, whereas in their school, the internet connection was not good enough, particularly in their classroom. From the result of the interview, it is shown that even though Edmodo has given the students some advantages but there are also some disadvantages for them. After the researcher observed the response of the students, it is clearly that the problem is from the students themselves. They are lack of awareness about the importance of media in their learning process. They still focus on their own business, they easily get distracted by the applications on their hand phone. Then, 49 about the internet connection, it is beyond the researcher’s capability. Actually the researcher had provided them with the internet connection but it could not accommodate all the users in the classroom. Hence, every medium which the teacher uses in the classroom not only has some benefits for students and their teacher but also it can give some downsides to them. So, it is the main task for teachers to turn out all the weaknesses into the strength, so that it can bring the classroom more effective. 50

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

In this part, the researcher divides the main parts into two, conclusions and suggestions. The first part is about the conclusions of the finding of this research. The second part presents the recommendations for the future research about the use of Edmodo as a media to improve students’ writing skill.

A. Conclusions

This research addresses to find out the extent to which Edmodo improves students’ writing skill particularly writing a narrative text and to find out the advantages of using Edmodo in the learning process. The results of this research show that Edmodo improves the students’ writing skill, especially in writing a narrative text. It is shown from the comparison of the result of the score in their pre- test and post-test, the mean score of the pre-test is less than the mean score of the post-test. So, it means Edmodo improves the eighth grade students’ writing skill of SMP N 1 Yogyakarta. Moreover, almost all the students agree that Edmodo is an effective medium for students especially in learning writing. To answer the second formulated problem, the researcher found that there are three main advantages of using Edmodo. The first is that Edmodo is a safe and interesting medium for a language classroom. The students are only connected with the teachers and the other students who have joined as a member of the group. It is interesting because the learning process becomes better. Moreover, the students are