USING WHATSAPP GROUP TO TEACH STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT TEXT OF 11TH GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT SMA N 14 SEMARANG

Kurniawan, Dinar Aji, 17420125. 2022. Using Whatsapp Group To
Teach Students’ Recount Text of 11th Grade of Senior High
School at SMA N 14 Semarang. Final Project, English Study
Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University
of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dra. Maria Y.W.L., M.Pd.,
Advisor II: Siti Musarokah, S.Pd., M.Hum.
Keywords: writing, recount text, whatsapp application
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 writer takes 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 aplication was 77.4571, then students the average value of the
students who write the recount text with whatsapp aplication was
82.000, and based of the students score, the writer can conclude that
whatsapp application can raise significant increase students writing
skills.