The Use of Reddit on Students’ Writing Skill at The Twelve Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta

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ANDIKA ARIF ZULFIKAR. NIM:1801055019. “The Use of Reddit on Students’ Writing Skill at The Twelve Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta”. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Program, The School of Teaching Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2022.
The objective of this research is to find out whether the use of Reddit can increase the students’ writing skill at the twelve grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta. This research was conducted by using pre-experimental research. The sample of this research were the students at the twelve grade of Multimedia in SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta in the academic year of 2021/2022. The number of them as the sample is consist of 21 students.
The result of this research showed that the students’ mean score of the pre-test was 63.40 which classified as fairly classification. Then, the students’ mean score of the post-test was higher than pre-test as 76.76 which classified as a good category. Moreover, based on the data analysis, it shows that t-test value is higher than t-table value (17.056>1.725) at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) = 20. It means that there is a significant increase. Therefore, H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. In other word, Instagram is effective to increase the students’ writing ability at the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 15 South Jakarta.