The Effectiveness of Blogger as the Media in the Learning of Persuasive Writing for Grade X Students of Senior High School 8 Semarang

Abstract

Writing is an active-productive language skill that has to be mastered by the students as a standard of knowledge about an object. But in fact, the students have not fully mastered this skill. Based on this problem, the Blogger was chosen as the media in the learning of writing, especially persuasive writing. This research aimed to find out the effectiveness of Blogger as an alternative in the learning of persuasive writing for grade X students of Senior High School. The research subject was grade X students of Senior High School 8 Semarang. This quantitative method with true experimental design taught the persuasive learning through Blogger as the media to the experiment group by taking the result of learning using posttest. In other words, the researcher used Posttest-Only Control Design. The data collection techniques used were test and non-test techniques. The instrument used in this research was in the form of exercise completed by the assessment criterion. The results of the data were in the form of score of the persuasive writing skills of the experiment group and control group. The hypothesis test was using T test. The findings showed that Blogger was an effective media in the learning of persuasive writing. Keywords—writing, learning, blogger, effectiveness