The Effect Of Using Storybird In Writing Narrative Text At Ninth-Grade Of SMPN 02 BALUNG

Niatul, Khasanah (2023) The Effect Of Using Storybird In Writing Narrative Text At Ninth-Grade Of SMPN 02 BALUNG. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Niatul Khasanah, 2023. The Effect of Using Storybird in Writing Narrative Text at Ninth-Grade of SMPN 2 Balung
Key words: Storybird, Writing Narrative Text
Writing is one of the English communication abilities that people can use
to communicate thought, feelings, and opinion in a written form. In this
globalization era, teacher needs to engage students interest in writing by
integrating technology to the writing learning process. Hence, this research
explores Storybird as an media can be implemented in building on students‟s
ability in writing narrative text. Storybird in recent years and various studies
report their positive effects on student‟s writing ability.
Therefore, the researcher was interested to conduct the research at SMPN
2 Balung where the researcher overcome the student‟s problem in writing by
using Storybird in teaching narrative text.The research aims to answer a research
question “ is there any effect in students ability in writing narrative text taught by
using Storybird and those who are not”. The objective of this study is to determine
wether there is effect in students ability in writing narrative text taught by using
Storybird platform and those who are not.
The researcher used a quantitative approach. A quasi-experimental was
employed in this study. The researcher used two classes, where the control class
was taught by using conventional method and experimental class was taught by
using Storybird. The subject of this study was ninth-grade of SMPN 2 Balung,
while 9C was chosen as experimental class and 9G as control class. Each class
consist of 33 students. To collect the data, researcher employed Test in both
classes, experimental and control class. In this study, T-test was used to analysis
the data.
After conducting the research, the researcher was able to find the
differences in the result between the experimental and control class. Independent
samples t-test was conducted by testing the mean score of the experimental and
control class. The sig. (2-tailed) obtained from the test result between the
experimental class and control class was 0.000. It revealed that the result of sig.(2-
tailed) was <0.05. Form the data presented, it can be concluded that the alternative
Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted which means there is an effect of using Storybird in
writing narrative text. The research findings showed that storybird is effective to
use in writing narrative text. In the end, the researcher calculated that the students
who are taught using Storybird in writing narrative text achive better than those
who are not. Overall, the use of Storybird help students to develop writings ideas.

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