The Effectiveness of Using WhatsApp to Improve Writing Ability in Announcement Text at the tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Klirong in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The objectives of this research is describe whether using WhatsApp is effective or not to improve students’s writing ability in Announcement text at the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Klirong in the academic year of 2016/2017. This study is belongs to Experimental research. To collect the data the researcher uses test as the instrument. The data were collected through writing test. The experiment is held through pre test and post test. The researcher uses two groups: experiment group and control group. In the experiment group the researcher use Whats App. The population of the study is the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Klirong. The total number of the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Klirong is 256 students. The researcher takes only 64 students, X.IPA.3 as experimental group and X.IPA.4 as control group. The mean score of control group is 69.97, and it has good ability in writing. While the mean score of experimental group is 76.88 and it has good ability in writing. The computation result of t-test is 4.551. The result of computation value is consulted to the 𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 at 0.05 significant level, the 𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 is 1.999. It is seen that the computation result (4.551) is higher than 𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒(1.999) in the significant level 0.05. From the result above, it can be conclude that there is significant difference in the achievement between the students who are taught using WhatsApp and students who were taught without WhatsApp. So, it can be conclude that using whats app is effective to improve writing ability in announcement text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Klirong in the academic year of 2016/2017.