BTW, what your hobby listening music?
S: BTW, what your hobby listening music?
F; Yes, Justin Beiber S: Are you like it
F: Yes. A lot By having a chat with his foreigner like the example above the students are able to compose the simple descriptive text with dome mistakes on grammar and diction but it it good and vary in content
This is my friend. His name is Miguel. He from Mexico He is like have a friend from Inodesia , me. He know Indonesia from his history teacher. He is good. He not correct my English.
I happy to chatting with him. He is like listening music. He is like Justin Beiber……
With this problem, there were 12 out of 25 students who failed to meet the criteria of success on writing the descriptive text , as their score were lower than 80. In fact, 5 students got only 60. Most students are good at content but poor at grammar and diction, as it is shown on the table below
Total Number (0-30)
Presence
Grammar
Diction
Content
(0-30)
(0-40)
Score
1 28 26 38 92
2 28 26 36 90
3 26 28 36 90
4 24 30 36 90
5 24 28 36 88
6 26 26 36 88
7 24 28 36 86
8 26 24 36 86
In responding to the findings of the first cycle in which it was clearly shown that students’ structure and diction that was still under the score of criteria of success set previously, teacher and collaborator plan the following cycle. Some revisions on the steps of teaching were improved. As the problem were mainly on structure and diction, in the second cycle more portion were given to deal with those two items. More exercises and discussion were given on that area. Teacher also provided more examples of language use on those points in general use or specifically ones used on Facebook. Then the plan was implemented. The students were ordered to have chat with their native speaker contacts again. Some of the students got new contacts, some others communicate about the same topic but deeper, and more complete.
When the result of their written communication was discussed in the class, it was known that significant improvement had been achieved. All of the students got better scores exceeding the criteria of success. Some of the students proved to develop their English. It can be seen in the sentences they constructed. For example, S:“wow, it’s amazing, I want to visit your city someday.” F:”Really, Would you like to come to my house? “ S: “By all means!. Well, I think your country is like in heaven during the winter, isn’t it, I am glad to have a chat with you”
F: ” Oh really ?Do you think so” ,I also wants to visit your country“ S: “I am happy to hear that. BTW, what do you do during the winter?
F: “Skiing, It is fun to play on the snow” S: “ Wow, I can’t imagine it, Is it very cold, in winter? F:”Yes, But it’s okay. We have fun all day” After some corrections the students are able to create better descriptive text below
I have a friend. He is Gustavo. He is from Spain. He is a students of University. He likes skiing during the winter. He likes to play on snow. I am happy to have a chat with him. He wants to visit my country, and I want to visit his country too
The more detail improvement will be presented in the following table
Presence
Content T otal Number
Grammar
Diction
(0-30)
(0-30)
(0-40)
Score
Thus, it is clear that students enjoy communicating with their native speakers contact through Facebook while practicing their skills in writing short functional text. However; providing more detail exercises and example of the certain language use are important to help the students communicate effectively.