The Effectiveness of Using Edmodo as Online Media on Students’ Outcome in Reading Course

The aims of this research are: 1) to define in detail whether edmodo as the online media can enhance the students’ outcome in reading course 2) to analyze what are the difficulties of implementing edmodo as the online media in teaching readings course. The classroom action research is as the method of this research design. In this research, it was conducted in two cycles used planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting as the procedures of the collecting data. This research was conducted at Pharmacy Department of the Mathematics and Natural Science Faculty of Garut University (UNIGA). The subject of the research focused on the second semester at class B of Pharmacy Department which consisted of 32 students. The result of the research found that; 1) Edmodo as the online media in enhancing the students’ reading outcome in identifying reading indicator regarding to; a) the students’ purpose in identifying the text b) the students’ understanding in identifying the specific and detailed information in each paragraph. c) the student’s finding of the content of the text d) the student’s understanding in identifying of the main idea in each paragraph of the of the text e) the students’ understanding in getting reference. The students’ score in enhancing reading outcome improved from step to step. In this research result finding, the researchers found the students’ improvement specifically, such as; the average of students’ score in pre-test session was 68.75, the first post-test session was 76.2, and the second post-test session was 84.20. Those results encouraged students to integrate the edmodo as the advanced technology in online media each learning, those created students to be active, creative in improving skill and knowledge; those involved students to be enjoynable activities in each learning including in teaching reading course.