THE EFFECT OF STORY JUMPER WEBSITE ON THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Arifin, Zaenal and Zahrida, Zahrida and Suwarno, Bambang (2019) THE EFFECT OF STORY JUMPER WEBSITE ON THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the effect of Story Jumper Website on the students’ writing skill. This research was designed as quasi-experimental research. The research was conducted at SMPN 13 Kota Bengkulu. Population of the research was the students at eighth grade of SMPN 13 Kota Bengkulu with total 158 students. From the whole population, the sample was taken 30 students from VIII A class. The sample was divided into two groups, experiment group and control group. The instrument employed in this study was writing test. The pre-test was conducted before giving the treatment in order to know the scores of both groups. After giving some treatments to the experiment and control group, post-test was conducted for both experiment and control group. The result was analyzed by using t-test formula. From the calculation, the researcher found the output from Paired Sample T-test 1 (pre-test and post-test experiment group), the sig. was 0.000 < 0.05. It meant that there was significant differencebetween experiment group pre-test average and post-test result average. This indicated that Story Jumper Website has significant effect towards the students’ writing skills. Paired Sample T-Test,revealed that students’ improvement mean score was 16.67 points for experiment group and 7.67 points for control group. It meant that the effect of Story Jumper Website was greater than the effects of conventional media on the students writing skills. It can be concluded that the use of Story Jumper Website was effective to improve students writing skills. Key words: Writing, Descriptive Text, Website, Story Jumper.

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