The Writing Ability in Descriptive Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Facebook.

Writing skill needs ability in developing ideas into sentences and paragraphs by considering logical, cohesiveness, mechanics, vocabulary and also grammatical correctness is difficult skill that requires teaching media to help the students. In fact that the students’ writing ability in descriptive text are still under the minimum criteria and found many errors are as proofs that the learning process needs an interesting media that can motivate and also help students in writing activity. Facebook is a kind of social network media that can be used as interesting media to motivate and help students in writing. The research about writing ability in descriptive text taught by using Facebook is conducted to find out whether there is a significant difference between the students’ writing ability in descriptive text before and after being taught by using Facebook. This quantitative experimental research about the students’ writing ability in descriptive text before and after being taught by using Facebook was conducted at the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 by using cluster random sampling and took class VIII.E as the sample of the research with 31 students. The result of the research shows that the students’ average score of writing descriptive text before being taught by using Facebook is 65.08 and the standard deviation is 9,15, it is categorized as “sufficient”. Meanwhile the students’ average score of writing descriptive text after being taught by using Facebook is 77.82 and the standard deviation is 5,29, it is categorized as “good”. Then from the hypothesis testing, I found that t-obtained is 7.8 while t-table is of degree of freedom 30 in the level of significant 0.05 is 2.04. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between the writing ability in descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Facebook. From the facts above, so that the writer suggests the English teacher may take the benefit of using social network media such as Facebook in teaching and learning activity especially writing activity so that students can be interested and help students to improve their writing ability. The students do not only use Facebook to make relationship or share their feelings, they can also use Facebook to help their ability in generating ideas especially in writing descriptive text. But in using social network media through internet access, the teacher also should pay lots of attention and controlling students from any inappropriate sites