THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GOOGLE CLASSROOM IN TEACHING WRITING AT GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMK NEGERI 1 ANGKOLA TIMUR

Abstract

This research aimed to know the effectiveness of using google classroom in improving students' narrative text writing skills at the tenth grade of SMK Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. In this research, the researcher used one-group pretest-posttest design. There was not control group. The researcher gave pre-test to student, then, researcher gave the students’ treatment about writing using Google Classroom. After treatment is given, researcher gives the student post-test. The population in this research were the students of SMK Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. The researcher used random sampling were takes X RPL class as the sample of this research. The total of students in this class was 18 students. The results showed that the t-test value was higher than the t-table value. The t-test value of written narrative text in terms of content is greater than t-table (7.26 > 2.10982) and the t-test value of written narrative text in terms of coherence is greater than t-table (11.42 > 2,10982) The results calculate the ttest of the indicators in the student's t-test in content and the coherence is greater than the t-table (18.68 > 2.10982). It was concluded that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted. That means that there were significant differences between the results of student content and coherence in writing narrative text by using Google Classroom.