THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM AS A MEDIA TO TEACH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO TENTH GRADE OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The  development  of  technology  in  this  era  is  increasing  very  fast.  It  is marked by the invention of digital technology such as Computer, smartphone, and other kind of technology basis. There are plenty of social media as one of mobile learning especially Google Classroom. So, the researcher conducts this research to gain how effective Google Classroom is for teaching writing descriptive text. In this research, the researcher took 31 students who stood in the tenth grade of Islamic senior high school. The experimental group (N 21) was taught Google classroom  to develop  their writing  skills, whereas  the control group  (N 20) was taught their writing skills through Powerpoint. As the research design, the students
participated  as  both  experimental  and  control  groups.  They  did  pre-test  at  the beginning of this study, received treatment, and did post-test at the end of the study. The finding of the research, the researcher found that analysis had shown that the Sig. value of the learning model was 0.000. It was lower than 0.05. It can be  concluded  that  the Ho was  rejected  and Ha was  accepted. So,  the  alternative hypothesis was  accepted meant  students were  taught  by  the Google  Classroom
achieve  better  in writing  skill  descriptive  text  than  those  taught without Google classroom. To know the most influential media, the researcher looked at the Partial Eta Squared  column. The value of Pre-test was 0.492  and  the value of  learning media was  0.596.  It meant  that  the  learning model  influenced  the  result  of  the students’ Post-test. In short, Google classroom media was effective to teach writing descriptive text.  
 
Keywords : Google classroom, descriptive text, writing.