Developing Wix.Com Media to Improve Students’ Descriptive Text Writing Skills

Abstract

This research aims to develop the learning media based on wix.com, to increase the students’ competence in descriptive text writing, and to find its validity and its effectiveness. The process of developing Production Écrite Avancée (PEA) learning material with wix.com is carried out in five stages; these are analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. The feasibility of PEA learning can be seen from the validation results. The results are rated 86.1% (very good) from material expert validation and 87.3% (very good) from the media expert validation. In addition, the result of the evaluation of the student questionnaire showed that the developed product obtained the rating of 86% (very good), so this product is valid or feasible. The result of the effectiveness of PEA learning with Wix.com shows that students’ pre-test and post-test increased. The students’ average score are 65 in the pre-test and 94 in the post-test. Progression exists in the students’ competence after learning and this is consistent with the results of the normality test. The pre- and post-test data have the value of Sig. 0.193 and Sig. 0.067 respectively. Since the sig. value for both data is > 0.05 then, as the basis for decision making in the Shapiro wilk normality test where if the value of sig. is > 0.05, there is a difference between pre-test and students’ positions. Hence, the students’ pre- and post-test data are normally distributed and increase their skills. This is also supported by the N-Gain test showing the average N-Gain score (g) of 0.51; the efficiency of the material learned with Wix.com is effectively used for PEA. Keywords: Writing, learning media, animation board, Benime