The Effect of Online Collaborative Writing through Edmodo on Students’ Writing Skill at MA Masyhudiyah Giri

Merinda Fiana Tasri

doi:10.30587/jetlal.v4i1.2299

Abstract

Implementing a writing strategy especially collaborative writing is one of the efforts to make writing learning work optimally. In its application, collaborative writing strategy is claimed to have a positive effect on each aspects of student writing skill, but based on the implementation of this strategy, several problems are found, where students are still less active in discussions and students do not want to be involved in the collaborative writing process. So with these problems, it certainly becomes an obstacle that can cause the implementation of this strategy do not run optimally, so that the selection of a media is the right way to overcome these problems by using Online Learning based Edmodo. The design of this study was quasi experimental design, with 10th grade students from MA Masyhudiyah as the subject. Two classes were chosen, they were X-MIPA 1 as an experimental class and X MIPA 2 as a control class with 28 students in each class. The research findings in this study revealed that there were significant differences between the experimental and control groups. This is evidenced by the results of sig. (2-tailed) is 0,000. The sig. (2-tailed) is lower than the significance level of 0.05 (0.000 <0.05). So, the null hypothesis (Ho) can be rejected. So it can be interpreted that Online Collaborative Writing through Edmodo has a positive effect on students' writing skills. Therefore, the researcher strongly recommend to the teachers to apply Online Collaborative Writing through Edmodo in the teaching and learning process and also for further researchers can conduct similar research in other ways, skill or levels.

Highlights

The English writing system is still running in one direction, this is because there are still complexities of teaching writing that are more focused on teacher-oriented rather than student-oriented
As the results of this study indicate that the use of collaborative writing strategy through Edmodo can improve student writing, besides that through the combination of Collaborative Writing through Edmodo, it can make students interested so that they are active in discussions through Edmodo
Based on the implementation of The Effect of Online Collaborative Writing through Edmodo, it can be stated that there was positive effect using Online Collaborative Writing through Edmodo on students writing skill at tenth grade of MA Masyhudiyah Giri

Summary

Introduction

The English writing system is still running in one direction, this is because there are still complexities of teaching writing that are more focused on teacher-oriented rather than student-oriented. There are several previous studies that show related to problems in writing that are often faced by students. In the Learners writing problems, most students have problems with grammar, sentence structure, organization of ideas and choice of words. In the previous year Nguyen Than Huy (2015) investigated that writing problems faced by senior high school students had the same results, students often experience problems related to aspects of vocabulary, where very limited vocabulary greatly affected the results of student writing. The limitations of grammar greatly affect the ability to use language, especially in writing. Without realizing it, it makes it difficult for students to arrange good sentences. The last is to organize ideas, students cannot develop the organization of ideas so that many errors occur during the writing process

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