The Effect of Using Blog As Collaborative Media On Students’ Writing Skill

Abstract

This research was a quantitative research. The objectives of this research was to find out the effect of using blog as collaborative media on students’ writing skill. This research was conducted at SMK Muhammadiyah 9 Medan, Jalan Garuda Gang Taqwa Sei Kambing. The population of this research was taken from tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 09 Medan on academic year 2019/2020 which consist of two classes they are X-TKJ1, and X-TKJ 2 with total 60 students, and were taken as sample by using total sampling technique. The sample, then, was divided into two classes the experimental class which was consisted of 30 students and treated by using blog as collaborative media, and the control class which consisted of 30 students treated by using conventional media test of writing recount text was administrated as the instruments of the study data analysis technique. Each group was given pre-test, treatment and post-test. The results showed that t test (2.939) is higher than t table (2.002) and degrees of freedom (df) is 58. In other words, the hypothesis showed that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted, or there was significant effect of using Blog as collaborative media on students’ writing skill.