The students‟ low ability in writing can be caused by technical problem. The teacher does not provide the chance for the students to practice writing. Students may
not write very much because the teacher does not give enough writing tasks. The teacher sometimes does not ask the students to do writing tasks because assigning and
correcting students‟ writing takes much time. From those cases, the writer wants to know how a social networking site has a
role in their writing skill and how effective a social media for everyday use while enhancing their writing skill. In addition, the writer also wants to improve their
writing through this research. There are some solutions of this problem. One of the solutions that can help
the students to practice their writing skill is by using SNs especially Facebook in the learning process. As students become increasingly connected through social
networking sites such as Facebook, it is important for us to explore how these can be utilized specifically in the foreign language classroom. As users connect, they are
able to share their idea in writing. This could allow the instructor to facilitate discussion among students of target language and culturally relevant material. The
writer will teach recount text which are the students have to retell their past activities. Learners can write their thought for their task, find the other sources in the internet,
give comments and argue each other in the tasks that given by the teacher. Based on the background above, the writer would like to take a research under
the title: “The Effectiveness of Using Social Networking Site in Teaching Writing of
Recount Text at SMA Negeri 87 Jakarta”
B. Identification of the Problem
From the background of the study written above, the researcher identifies problems as below:
1. From previous observation in SMA Negeri 87 Jakarta, many students have some
difficulties in writing by using English, they are; they have no idea and a
willingness to write, and they are too afraid to write in English because they do not master the grammar and some vocabulary.
2. Students did not get good scores in writing.
3. Students become addicted in using social networking sites without realizing of
many advantages that they can take.
C. Limitation of the Problem
To avoid misunderstanding in interpreting the problem, it is important to limit the problem. The limitations of the problem are:
1. The writer limits the subject matter to the teaching and learning writing.
2. The writer will use Facebook as media when she gives assignments to the
students.
D. Formulation of the Problem
The analysis of the writer will be mainly based on the theories in some books or it will be done through library research. Moreover, the analysis will also be based
from the internet study. The formulation as follows: Is social networking site effective in teaching writing of recount text at SMA
Negeri 87 Jakarta?
E. Objective of the Study
Based on the formulation above, the objective of study is to find out whether the use of social networking site is effective in teaching writing of recount text or not.
F. Significance of the Study
The significance of this writing might be expected as follows: 1.
The Writer This study is expected to give the new information to the writer about how to
teach writing by using social networking site.
2. The English Teachers
This finding result of this study is expected to provide useful information about a media used in teaching writing and it is hoped to be applied in teaching and
learning process. 3.
The Further Researcher This study is expected to give new knowledge to the further researcher to do the
better research of teaching and learning cases.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter presents and discusses the concept of writing, the concept of recount text, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Social Networking Site,
Facebook as Computer-Assisted Language Learning, teaching writing through Facebook, advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook in teaching writing, peer
assessment in writing, advantages and disadvantages of peer assessment, conceptual thinking, and relevant previous study.
A. The Concept of Writing
1. Definition of Writing
The definition of writing according to Langan is “Writing is a skill. People
who believe that writing is a „natural gift‟ rather than a learned skill may think they are the only ones for whom writing is unbearably difficult.”
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It means that people who think that writing is really hard judge that everyone else
‟s writing is easy. On the other words, that people imply that they simply do not have a talent for writing, while
others do. This attitude shows that they try to avoid writing and while they are writing, they do not try their best. So, writing is a learned skill that can be learned by
everyone without worrying whether they have talent to do this or not.
As Rosen points out in Hedge‟s book, writing is detached from the wide range of expressive possibilities in speech. Compared with speech, effective writing
requires a number of things: a high degree of organization in the development of ideas and information; a high degree of accuracy so that there is no ambiguity of
meaning; the use of complex grammatical devices for focus and emphasis; and a careful choice of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and sentence structures to create a
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John Langan, College Writing Skills with Readings-6
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Ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, p. 12.
