Abstract :
The research was conducted to find out the effectiveness of using blog in
teaching writing recount text which was observed and analyzed from students of
tenth grade at MAS Amaliyah Sunggal. The method that was used quantitative
method by using quasi experimental research type. The population of this research
was tenth grade students of MAS Amaliyah Sunggal. In taking the sample, the
researcher used probability sampling technique by using cluster random sampling
type which took two classes as experimental class and control class. There were
33 students in experimental class and 32 students in control class. In experimental
class, the researcher taught by using blog and in control class, the researcher
taught by using conventional method. The researcher used pre-test, treatment, and
post-test in the both classes. In experimental class that was taught by using blog,
the increase of mean score was 21.60 and in control class was taught by
conventional method, the increase of mean score was 11.96. Based on T-test
result by using SPSS V.22 in post-test in experimental class and control class, it
was found that Sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000. It showed that Sig. (2-tailed) was smaller
than 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05). In other words, there were significant differences
between experimental class and control class (H 0 was rejected and H a was
accepted). Therefore there was effectiveness of using blog in teaching writing
recount text at tenth grade of MAS Amaliyah Sunggal.