Using Whatsapp Group to Teach Students’ Writing Recount Text of 11TH Grade of Senior High School at SMA N 14 Semarang

Abstract

Writing requires hard thinking to produce ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, and compositions. There are some texts in writing. One of them is recount text, recount text is a form of text that aims to retell an event with the aim of informing or entertaining. The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on almost the whole world, especially in the field of education. WhatsApp is one of the applications used for daily communication. the use of WhatsApp is for delivering material in class or face-to-face and e-learning using electronic media learning. WhatsApp is an application that can help the learning process in the classroom and give a positive impact on the teachers and students, it makes the students do not feel bored and makes the learning process more interesting. The aim of this study to find out the achievement of students’ writing skills who write recount text with and without WhatsApp application and the significance difference in the writing skills of the students who write recount text with or without WhatsApp application. The population is 36 students of group XI IPS 1 & 2 in SMA N 14 Semarang. The writers take two classes as a control class and an experimental class. The research instrument is test, there are two types of test, pre-test and post-test. Written test is use to collecting the data. After collecting data, there are significance differences between the class who taught using conventional learning and the cass who taught using WhatsApp application. The results of the study are the average value of the students who write the recount text without WhatsApp application was 77.4571, then students the average value of the students who write the recount text with WhatsApp application was 82.000, and based of the students score, the writers can conclude that WhatsApp application can raise significant increase students writing skills.