THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PROFILE PICTURE OF FACEBOOK IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA AT-TAQWA NUSAWUNGU CILACAP IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

English is one of the most important international languages for communication. In Indonesia, English as a second language and also a foreign language. In every school in Indonesia are always given an education about the second language that is English language. By learning English, the student will teach four important skills, there are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Many students in Indonesia have difficulties and fell boring in learning English, especially in learning descriptive text. Therefore, the media used by the teacher must be appropriate and fun for them. By using profile picture of facebook help the students in learning descriptive text. Besides, the students will get new experience in writing descriptive text and they will not feel bored. The purpose of this research is to find out whether media of profile picture of facebook is effective or not in teaching descriptive text at tenth grade students of MA AT-TAQWA Nusawungu Cilacap. In this research the researcher took 40 students as the sample. As the experimental group, the researcher used class X.1 which consists of 20 students. Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher took 20 students of class X.2. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test to both classes. The researcher taught descriptive text by using media profile picture of facebook to experimental group and common material fron text book to the control group. The researcher then statistically analyzed the data by using t-test polled variance. After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that teaching writing descriptive text using profile picture of facebook is effective. As the fact, the result of t-value is 4.219 based on the 0.05 significant level, the value of t-table is 2.021. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 4.219>2.021. So, it can be stated that the hypothesis “the use of profile picture of facebook for teaching writing descriptive text at tenth grade students of MA ATTAWA Nusawungu Cilacap in the academic year 2012/2013 is effective” is accepted.