Puput Idasari ¹, Lu’luil Maknun ²

Universitas Mercu Buana Yogyakarta

Puput.idasari28@gmail.com¹; luluilmaknun87@gmail.com²

ABSTRACT

The progress of education with access to technology for several years can improve the quality of education. Using technology in learning processes online or offline found out the weaknesses and strengths of delivering materialism. Hence, the use of Word Up Application, which is one of the technologies that can be used to insert vocabulary in writing skills. The method used for research was quasi-experimental with two group pretest-posttest. The participants of this study were students in eight at SMP Negeri 1 Belitung II. The research was conducted by 8 meetings, 6 meetings for treatments and 2 meetings for pretest-posttest. The research data collection used normality test of Kolmogorov Smirnov, a test of levee test homogeneity, paired sample t-test and independent sample test on SPSS 25 program. The result of the research showed the different significance before and after treatment with data analysis criteria of t-test that H0 (null hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (alternative hypothesis) was accepted if the value was probably (p) lower than alpha (<) 0,05. The conclusion of the study showed the effectiveness of using Word Up Application on students’ writing.

KEYWORDS: Writing Skills; Word Up Application; Effectiveness

247 – 255 |   ISSN: 2579-437X  |  Volume 7, 9 October 2021

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