Whatsapp Media To Improve 8th Grade Students' Writing Skills in "Daily Routine" Topic

Abstract

This research aims to find how the learning process using WhataApp media can improve writing skills
on Daily Routine material for Junior School students for the 2023/2024 academic year in Semarang.
It consists of 34 students. The subjects of this research were 34 class VIII students. It consists of 16 boys
and 18 girls. The type of research is classroom action research. There are two research cycles, and
every step has four stages. There are planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The data
of the research used observations, tests, and questionnaires. After collecting the data, the researcher
did the data analysis. This research presents data descriptively and quantitatively. The results of this
research show that students' skills in writing Daily Routine material have increased. It can be looked
at by data analysis in each cycle. In the pre-cycle results, 18, or 53% of students did not get the standard
score. In the first cycle, students were increasing their scores. There was an increase from the first
cycle, namely 21 students, or 52%, who got a standard score from 34 students. After that, in the second
cycle, there was an increase from the second cycle, namely 26 students, or 76%, who got a standard
score from 34 students. This research shows that students' writing skills have improved with each
cycle. Based on the results, the author concludes that the results of Whatsapp media standards can
improve writing skills in students at the junior high school level, especially class VIII.