The Effect of Using Facebook towards the Students' writing skills in descriptive text at SMAN 1 Purbatua Academic Year 2019/2020

This study deals with the effect of using facebook profile toward the students‟ writing skill in descriptive text at SMA N 1 Purbatua. The objective of this study was to find out whether facebook as a medium of learner has significant effect towards the students‟ writing skills in descriptive text at SMA N 1 Purbatua. The total of population was 157 students and the researcher took 40 students as the sample of this research. Therefore, the researcher divided the class into two classes, there were experimental class and control class. The experimental class was applyed facebook profile on the learning process meanwhile the control class was applyed conventional. The data were collected by using both pre-test and post-test. The result showed that there was significant effect of using acebook profile on the students‟ writing skill in descriptive text, it was proven from the result of data analysis tobserved was higher than ttable (6,47 0.05) and df 38. It could be concluded that the hypothesis alternative (ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (H0) was rejectd