THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM TEACHING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE-BASED ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION WRITING SKILL

Abstract

The aim of the study is to explore whether there are some differences in the students’ analytical exposition writing skills taught by using Google Classroom and conventional technique, to analyze some differences in the student’s analytical exposition writing skills between field-independent cognitive learning and field-dependent of cognitive learning style, and to find out whether there is a relationship between the Google Clasroom technique and the students’ cognitive learning style.  The research used a true experimental method by pretest, posttest and questionnaire.  There are two classes involved in the research achievement, taught by Google Classroom and by conventional technique.  The researcher only took randomnly 74 of 430 students, consisting of 37 students for experimental class who are taught by using Google Classroom and 37 students for controlled class, who are taught by conventional technique.  The data analyzed in this research was gathered through test for experimental class, and controlled class.  The result gained from the research proved the differences in the students’ analytical exposition writing skills taught by using Google Classroom and conventional technique.  It was supported by average of experimental class improving higher 79,56 to 84,78 than the controlled class from 79,94 to 81,08.  The significant level of test can be seen from the normality test is 0,357.  It shows that the ability of analytical exposition writing skills by using Google Classroom better than conventional technique.  The differences in the students’ analytical exposition writing skills between field-independent and field-dependent of cognitive learning style can be seen from the average of the significance score is 0,00.   It means the null hypothesis is accepted and there was no significance relationship between class using Google Classroom and cognitive independent field learning style class. Thus, the teaching technique by using Google Classroom is effective in improving on students’ cognitive–based analytical exposition writing skill.