The Effectiveness of Using Social Media (Instagram) in Teaching Writing Skill Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Pejagoan in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The objectives of this research are (1) to describe the students’ writing skill in descriptive text, and (2) to find out the effectiveness of using social media (Instagram) in teaching writing skill descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Pejagoan in the academic year of 2016/2017. This study belongs to Experimental research. To collect the data the researcher used test as the instrument. The data were collected through writing test. The experiment was held through pre-test and post-test. The researcher used two groups: experiment group and control group. In the control group the researcher used conventional technique, while in the experiment group the researcher used social media (Instagram). The population of the study was the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Pejagoan. The total number of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Pejagoan is 316 students. The researcher took only 64 students. The mean score of control group is 63.43, and have sufficient category in writing skill. While, the mean score of experimental group is 75.35, and have good category in writing skill. The computation result of t-test was 7.715. The result of computation value is consulted to the ttable at 0.05 significant level, the ttable is 2.000. It is seen that the computation result (7.715) is higher than ttable (2.000) in significant level 0.05. From the result above, it could be conducted that there was significant difference in the achievement between the students who were taught using social media (Instagram) and the students who were taught without social media (Instagram). So, it could be concluded that social media (Instagram) was an effective medium of teaching writing in descriptive text.