Optimizing Students’ Ability in Writing Recount Text Through Shared Writing Strategy using Social Media “Facebook” in The Eleventh Grade

Abstract

In the Era of technology, social media is the most popular one. There are a lot of social media but Facebook has more users than others. Almost all students have Facebook and interested in learning using technology in the class, especially writing recount text. So that, the teacher chose a strategy was combined with the use of technology in teaching and learning process. Shared writing strategy was chosen as the strategy which can combine with social media “Facebook”. Therefore, this strategy is aimed at describing the implementation of shared writing strategy using social media “Facebook”, the students’ working writing recount text, and the students’ response to the use of shared writing strategy using social media “Facebook”. The design of this study was a descriptive qualitative. Field notes, checklist, students’ shared writing strategy using social media “Facebook”, students’ task, and interview were used as instruments of collecting data. To analyze the data, the researcher used data condensation, data display, and drawing conclusion. Some findings obtained from this study indicated the media is very useful and helpful. The students were interested with shared writing strategy using social media “Facebook” have done. The finding showed that the ability of the students was varied. Not all students reached the writing criteria from O’Malley and Pierce’s scoring rubric.