The effectiveness of using digital scrapbook in teaching writing recount text to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2022/2023
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2023-07-23
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION PROGRAM TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY OF PURWOREJO MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY
Abstract
The purpose of this research are: 1) to describe the students' ability to
write recount texts in the tenth grade at SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic
year of 2022/2023; and 2) to find out whether or not using a digital scrapbook in
teaching writing recount texts to the tenth grade at SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in
the academic year of 2022/2023 is effective.
This study used a quasi-experimental design. The research was carried out
at SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo. It was conducted from February 23rd to March 16th,
2023. The population of this research was all the tenth grade students of SMA
Negeri 4 Purworejo, which is 252 students. The research sample was the tenth
grade students of X-4 as the experimental class and the students of X-3 as the
control class. Both classes consist of 36 students who were chosen by purposive
sampling. Digital scrapbooks were used for teaching writing in the experimental
group, but it were not used for teaching in the control group. For collecting data,
the researcher used writing tests. Technique of analyzing data used quantitative
analyze to find means of pre-test and post-test.
The research finding shows that: 1) based on the mean score, the post-test
in the experimental class with a mean score of 73.56, which belongs to good
category, was higher than the mean of the post-test in the control class with a
mean score of 63.81, which belongs to the sufficient category (73.56 > 63.81);
and 2) based on the 0.05 significance level, the computation shows that the
Significance of 2-tailed (p) was lower than alpha (0.000 < 0.05). As a result, the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. In other words, using a digital scrapbook
was effective in teaching writing recount text to the tenth grade students of SMA
Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2022/2023