The using of peer feedback to improve writing ability through facebook at English department’s students at state institute for Islamic studies Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Laila, Fasyatul (2011) The using of peer feedback to improve writing ability through facebook at English department’s students at state institute for Islamic studies Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Some students found difficulties in learning functional text which show some kinds of text in English writing such as narrative, descriptive, recount, exposition and argumentative, such as lack of idea, lack of vocabulary, get error in grammar and diction, so the researcher using Peer Feedback to makes the students to improve their writing by getting comment from their peers. Then the researcher combines by using facebook as media to do all of the feedback process that as learning media to share their writing product and to get real audience. This research was Classroom Action Research that was done in 2nd semester of 2010 class English Education Department of State Institute for Islamic studies Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The teacher implemented peer feedback in writing 1 class that focus on functional text and given pre test before treatment and post test after the treatment done. Then the researcher analyzed the data by using quantitave by using t test to indicate how effective the use of Peer Feedback through on Facebook is improving the students’ writing ability in English and qualitative to describe the response of the students by answering the questionnaire. From the result of the data shown that the t value less than t table with significance 0.05 it means that H null accepted and there were improvement between score of pre test and post test while the strategy implemented. And the last finding about the questionnaire showed that 75% students give positive responses in using peer feedback through on facebook. In conclusion, the using of peer feedback through on facebook improves the writing ability of students in 2nd semester. The researcher expects this research useful for English teacher, students, and the reader who are interested in teaching writing.