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

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.