The effectiveness of using social networking site in teaching writing of recount text: an experimental study at tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 87 Jakarta

The objective of the study is to find the empirical evidence of whether social networking site is effective towards students� skill in writing of recount text. According to some theories and previous studies, it shows that there is positive effect of using social networking site in teaching writing. This research was a quasi-experiment which involved two classes (experimental class and controlled class) to be researched. The experimental class was treated by using Facebook (one of social networking sites) as a media of writing and the controlled class was treated without using Facebook. The samples of this research were the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 87 Jakarta. They were X IIS 3 class as the experimental class and X IIS 2 as the controlled class. Each class consisted of 25 students. They were chosen by using purposive sampling. The instrument that used was written test and analytical scoring by John Anderson was used to assess the tests result. The pre-test mean score of experimental class was 65.9 while the post-test mean score of controlled class was 82.6. In the contrary, the pre-test mean score of controlled class was 66 and the post-test mean score was 77.7. The significant difference was shown by the posttest mean score of experimental class which was treated by using Facebook in teaching writing was greater than post-test mean score of controlled class which was not treated by using Facebook. The result of statistical hypothesis test found that on significance level 5% ttable was 1.67 while tobserved was 2.75 or tobserved>ttable. Hence, the H0 (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. In the other words, the use of social networking site is effective in teaching writing of recount text