THE INFLUENCE OF USING WEB BLOG TOWARDS STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE AT SMA AL KAUTSAR BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF USING WEB BLOG TOWARDS STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE TENTH GRADE AT SMA AL KAUTSAR BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021 By: KARTIKA APRILA ULFA Writing is one of the most difficult subject to the students. Web blog are an ideal resource for the teaching of writing. Web blog is types of website. Web blog can be used as a journal to reflect a topic, for writing practice or as free-form templates for personal expression. Web blog as a part of social media in the work can used as a media in teaching writing. As a social media, web blog can build students interest to learn English and can improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The purpose of the research is to know whether there is an influence of using a web blog towards students’ writing ability in descriptive text at the first semester of the tenth grade at SMA Al Kautsar Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2020/2021. The research was conducted by using pre experimental design, type the one group pretest-posttest. The population of this research was the tenth grade of SMA Al Kautsar Bandar Lampung. The researcher took the sample by using cluster random sampling, the sample was X IPS 1 as an experimental class, consist of 36 students. To collect the data, the researcher used a writing test as an instrument. There was a pre-test that was held before the researcher gave treatment to the experimental class and a post-test which was held afterward. To make the data analysis, the researcher analyzed the data by using paired sample test formula. From the data analysis, the hypothetical test was obtained the result of tobserved was 16.783 and ttable was 2.030. It means tobserved is higher than the ttable shown by 16.783 ≥ 2.030. This result means there is an influence of using web blog towards students’ writing ability in descriptive text at the first semester of the tenth grade at SMA Al Kautsar Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2020/2021. Keywowds: Experimental Design, Student’s Writing Ability, Web Blo