The Comparison between Wattpad and Blog in Project Based Learning to Teach Written Analytical Exposition Text

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out which one is more effective between wattpad and blog in project based learning to teach written analytical exposition text. This study was a quasi-experimental research. The subject was the eleventh grade students of SMA Ibu Kartini Semarang in the academic year of 2018/2019.They were divided into experimental group 1 and experimental group 2. The experimental group 1 was taught using wattpad while the experimental group 2 wastaught using blog as the learning media and both of them used project based learning as the teaching method. The pre-test result revealed that the mean score of the experimental group 1 was 60.76 and the experimental group 2 was 60.69.Meanwhile, the post-test mean scores of experimental group 1 and experimental group 2 were 80.23 and 74.46. The t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental group 1 and the experimental group2 since t-value was higher than t-table (4.490 > 2.064). It could be concluded that both wattpad and blog were effective to teach writing skills. However, the use of wattpad was more effective than using blog in project-based learning to teach written analytical exposition text.

Keywords

• wattpad
• blog
• project based learning
• writing
• analytical exposition text