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The Effect of Padlet Application towards Students’ Narrative Writing at the Tenth Grade
of SMAN 1 Malingping Lebak Banten in Academic Year 2023/2024
Ida Parida
1*
, Ari Fajria Novari
2
, Nur Azmi Rohimajaya
3
1,2,3
Bahasa Inggris Universitas Mathla’ul Anwar
e-mail: idaparida07000@gmail.com
e-mail: ari.fajria@gmail.com
e-mail: nurazmirohimajaya030@gmail.com
Abstract: This research paper aims to know whether there is a significant effect of Padlet application
towards students’ narrative writing at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 1 Malingping Lebak-Banten In Academic
Year 2023/2024. The authors paper used quantitative approach and quasiexperimental design. The
technique in choosing the sample is cluster random sampling; the authors used XE 7 (36 students) as class
experiment and XE 10 (36 students) as class control. The experimental group was taught narrative text in
writing activity used Padlet application, where as the control group was taught used Google classroom. At
the first meeting of the research, the researcher gave a pre-test to both the experimental group and the
control group to measure the extent of students’ narrative writing. Then gave treatment for five meetings
and the last meeting of the research, the researcher gave a post-test to find out the final results and to prove
the significant effect after being given treatment using a Padlet application in the experimental group. In
analyzing the data, the author used independent sample t-test by SPSS 29 for windows showed the value of
t calculated> t- table was 25.100 in experimental class. And its significance value because less than 0.05 (P
= 0.00 < 0.05 in experimental class). It can be concluded that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.
Therefore, the researcher concluded that the Padlet application has a good effect on Students’ Narrative
Writing. In addition, this Padlet application is not only effectively used in learning writing but could also
be used as an online learning medium because this Padlet application has space to communicate freely
between teachers and students as well as between other students.
Keywords: Narrative text, Padlet Application, Writing
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1. Introduction
English is an international language. It has become the language of communication in the
international so that there is almost no country where it is not studied as a language of communication for
students or business people. Learning English as a foreign language still becomes a burden for most students
in Indonesia. According to Novari et al. (2018:151-156) Language has a very important role in human life.
Humans have used language as a means of communication for centuries. Language exists in line with the
social history of a society or nation. Even though these natural 'words' are not changed in the dictionary,
people really like to use them so that they become the initial words that are attached and assumed and the
modified words have the same meaning. Language vocabulary has developed irregularly in recent years
and tends not to be formulated.
The authors found several problems, face by students in writing there are: The first, the students
lacked of motivation, To learn writing because students felt as a boring lesson. The second problem,
students had difficulted expressing their ideas. The third problem, students had difficulted in writing explain
texts they were did not understood the various types of text and writing processes. The fourth problem, the
lacked of students' vocabulary. The next problem, students had difficulted compiling grammar which made
students difficulted for students to assembling each word into a sentence. The last problem, limited media
used by teacher. There were several texts in writing to be mastery of student at Tenth Grade of Senior High
School consisting of descriptive text, announcement text, and recount text. Based on several texts studied
in the tenth grade of Senior High School, the authors takes narrative text as the learning material in this
study.
To solution to these problems are that teachers shall know more about media in English learning,
there are lots of media that teachers has used to help in the learning process in the classroom, because by
using a variety of media teachers and students easily and increase their motivation during the teaching and
learning process in the classroom. To help students improve their writing skill, researcher provides a Padlet
Application as a learning media in the classroom.
Padlet
Padlet is a free online tool that is best described as an online notice board. Padlet can be used by
students can contain links, videos images and document files. When you registered with Padlet, you can
create as many “walls” or online notice boards as you like. These walls can set to private or public, with
each wall having separate privacy settings. According to Fiester & Green (2016:243), Padlet allows for
students to be actively engaged in a lesson when they or can otherwise be distracted. Padlet can also serve
as a bulletin board where students can post their thoughts, ideas, questions, and answers.”
a. The Features of Padlet Application
According to Kurien (2021) Padlet is a creative tool used to enhance interactivity in teaching and
learning process. You have used this digital bulletin board to display anything with a variety of facilities
available on the “wall”. Padlet walls could be made for public purposes such as classroom learning or
personal enjoyment. Padlet Application is the best tool to collaborate and express someones thoughts and
also could read others’ statements. Each individual could provide statements, comments, and questions in
one place that was easily accessible to everyone to get feedback.
b. The Use of Padlet in Learning Writing
Padlet or could be referred to as an online whiteboard is very useful for used in distance learning.
Using Padlet as a distance learning medium does not limited communication between students and their
teachers. Like a blackboard in the classroom, this online wall could also accommodate subject matter in the
form of files, students’ assignments, voice notes, writing, pictures, messages, and facilitate communication,
either thought comments, voice, messages and etc.
According to Awaludin et.al in Rony (2021:29-30) explained that. The used of Padlet in the
classroom start from the teacher is explaining the features in Padlet such as how to create a post or comment
to others’ post. The teacher then shared the topic or material in Padlet, and asked the students to read the
posts. Once the students already read the post in the Padlet, the teacher asked them to tell their experienced
or opinion in the class Padlet’s wall. In their postings, the students can also insert some links, images,
videos, or files which support and make their posting or comment become more interesting. With this, first,
the students would be able to write variety of text genres either it is in from of personal or academic term.
Second, the students can discus things related to the writing itself such as the points they still not understand.
Third, it can provide a good learning environment for the students’ collaboration in writing classroom.
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Finally, it can make the students to write and express their view points, and help other students as well
whereas the teacher provide feedbacks on their writing.
In using the Padlet application as a learning medium, of course there were several steps that must be
passed in creating an online wall. For this reason, the researcher explained several steps that must be taken
for users who would create an online wall.
The steps are:
1. Go to http://padlet.com/ and click sign up for free
2. Enter your email and password or the alternative a way sign up with google
3. Click your account email.
4. Padlet format presentation”. Choose one best suited to the content.
5. Click Make a Padlet
Narrative
Narrative text is a story text that describes an event sequentially from the beginning to the end of the
story and has a structure that is interconnected and talks about interesting things that had the aim of
entertaining the reader.
a. Types of Narrative Text
There are several types of narrative texts. According to Arisman & Haryanti (2019:327), “The types
of narrative texts are mysteries, fables, legends, science fiction, romances, fairy tales, and myths. Included
are autobiographies and biographies or a mixture of both.”
1. Mystery.
Mystery is a text that tells about a crime that focuses on how detectives solve their problems. Example:
Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
2. Fables fables are short story that gives a moral point and tells traditionally with animal characters
talking and acting like humans. Example: The Goose with the Golden Eggs.
3. Legends
Legends are narratives of human actions that both the storyteller and the listener consider to take place
in human history. Legends tells the history of an area in brief. Some define legends as folk tales.
Example: Robin Hood and Sangkuriang.
4. Science fiction
Science fiction tells about the science and technology of the future. These stories involve laws or
scientific theories that are partly completely fictional Example: A Space Odyssey.
5. Romance
Romance tells of two lovers who have difficulty being together, so there is a need for sacrifice.
Example: Love Story.
6. Fairy tales
Fairy tales are full of fantasy. It usually featured folklore characters such as fairies, giants, and usually
magic. Example: Pinocchio and Snow White
7. Myth
Myths are section stories, mainly describing natural or prehistoric events of a place or person.
Example: The Myth of Dewi Sri.
There are seven types of narrative text, but researcher had focus on learning and comprehending
legend and fairy tales. This is complying with the Ministry of Education. Several titles of legend stories are
given students, such as Malin Kundang, Sangkuriang, and so on.
b. The Generic Structure of Narrative Text
Orientation is a recognition part of the narrative text. This section contains the background of the
time, the setting, and the description of the characters described in the text. According to Zulfah (2020:8-
9).
1. Orientation.
Setting the beginning of story and introducing the characters (who, when, what, and where).
2. Complication.
Explains the problems in the story and how the main characters are solving the problem. This section
includes situation, activities or events.
3. Resolution.
The crisis usually goes down for the better but can also get worse.
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4. Reorientation.
Usually indicates the end of the story usually a happy ending and sad ending.
c. Language Features of Narrative Text
1. Simple past tense is known as the second form of verb. It is used to describe an action that taken
place in the past and was completed.
2. Noun phrase is a powerful tool for descriptive language in English they are a group of words that
work together to describe a person, place, think, or idea.
3. Time connective and conjunction such as: however, although, later, then.
4. Adverbs and adverbial phrases describe the place and time of event such as: once upon a
time, long time ago.
5. Action verbs; Show an action such as: stood, explained, smashed.
6. Saying and thinking verb; Show what the person is feeling/thinking/saying characters such
as: told, realized, decided.
Writing
According to Riski & Ahmad (2021:7) Writing is a form of conveying thoughts and messages to
readers to understand. In other words, writing is the process of creating words into meaningful sentences
that make them good paragraphs. In this process, authors have to create several sentences to create several
sentences to make good text for readers to understand easily when they read the text.
a. The kinds of Writing
In the opinion of Brown (2018:229) there are four basic kinds of writing.
These are:
1. Imitative
To produce written language, students must go through basic writing skill stages such as learning to
write letters, punctuation marks and short sentences. This type includes the ability to spell and
understand punctuation marks correctly, placement of punctuation marks and capital letters. Students
at this imitation level learn to master writing.
2. Intensive
Slightly higher than the basic of imitative writing is the skill of creating appropriate vocabulary, In
writing so that each word has continuous with each other by determining meaning, suitability and
continuity.
3. Responsive
Writing like this requires students to be able to connect sentences into paragraphs and try to create
several paragraphs that were interconnected. This article contains narratives and brief descriptions, as
well as short reports.
4. Extensive
Extensive writing that has gone through the entire previous writing process, starting from word
selection, arrangement and form of simple sentences to determining grammar and meaning of several
paragraphs continuously. Based on the basic kinds of writing above, the authors was used responsive
writing for students’ writing narrative text, because to see his ability in writing creativity.
b. Process of Writing
Writing is process of making a good paragraph, so researcher has to construct a good topic.
Sentences, and starting the point. The writing process consists of four elements. Those are planning,
drafting and editing (reflecting and revising) Harmer (In Fitri. 2022:9-10).
1. Planning
Before authors begin to write, obviously we need to have a planned. There are three steps in these
parts. First the students have to decide the topic. Then, the students have to know about language style.
The last, the students have to consider the context.
2. Drafting
Authors can refer to the next section of writing. In this part, the students have to write all of their ideas.
3. Editing
In this part, the students read their writing to find outif there was a mistake. After the students finds
the mistake, then revise it. It will help to minimize the mistake.
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4. Final Version
The last part is the final version. It is possible that the final version is much the plans and drafts that
have been made previously. Because there are many changes in the editing process.
Based on the process of writing the researcher concluded that writing is very important in a piece of
writing because if four process of writing are not used, then it was not be perfect one process of writing hat
had used in writing such as the research, novel, and etc. then the readers have understood what a writer
written.
2. Method
In this research, the authors used a quantitative approach, and quasi experimental design. The
objective of the research is writing skill.According Melissa (2017:12), "Quantitative research methods are
usedto collect and analyze data of the research that were presented numerically." Moreover, to Rogers and
Revesz (2020:133), “Quasi experimental research designs examine whether there is casual relationship
between independent and dependent Variable. Simply defined, the independent variables is the variables of
influence and the dependent variables is the variable that is being influenced.” Based on the definition
above the authors assumed the quantitative approach was make the researcher easy to found out the data or
the effect from the research, the author was used the quasi experimental design, and apply the pre-test and
post-test Padlet Application in the experimental group and google classroom in the control group. In the
first meeting of the research, the researcher gave a pre-test to both the experimental class and the control
class to measure the extent of students' writing skills.
The population of this research is the Tenth Grade of SMAN 1 Malingping in academic year
203/2024, and the sample was taken for two classes, which is XE 7 as an Experimental class & XE 10 as a
control class. Both of them given the pre-test and post-test while class XE 8 given the instrument of writing
test, it does for proving whether the instrument valid or not. The authors used Padlet application for
Experimental class and Google Classroom for control class. So the sample of this research is 72 students
and the respondent for validity and reliability is 38 students.
3. Result and Discussion
In this chapter, the authors presented the results of the students' writing skills test from a sample of
both the experimental class and the control class. The data of this study were taken from a written test with
a total of two questions and for the assessment it was in accordance with the components of writing
consisting of content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and writing mechanics. The test data were taken
before and after the treatment was given. The object of the research is the tenth grade students of SMAN 1
Malingping. The research class consists of an experimental class that has been implemented by the Padlet
application as a learning medium and a control class that has applied the Google Classroom application as
a learning medium. The test results from the two classes were compared to find out whether there was a
significant effect on the use of the Padlet application towards students' writing skills in the experimental
class. Based on the calculation using SPSS 29 Version, the data above can described as follow:
Table.3 Descriptive of the data
N
Minimum
Maximum
Mean
Sum
Std.
Devi
ation
Pre-test experiment
36
40
70
53.47
1925
9.843
Post-test
experiment
36
60
95
73.47
2645
10.407
Pre-test control
36
40
85
58.89
2120
11.283
Post-test control
36
60
90
73.06
2630
7.772
Valid N (listwise)
36
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Based on the calculation by using SPSS, the result of the pre-test at experimental class the highest
score is 70, the lowest score is 40, and the total score is 1925, The total students are 36. Meanwhile, the
result of the post-test at experimental class, the highest score is 95, the lowest score is 60, and total score is
2645, the total students are 36. The result of pre-test at control class, the highest score is 85, the lowest
score is 40, and total score is 2120. The total students are 36, Meanwhile, the result of the posttest at control
class, the highest score is 90, the lowest score is 60, total score is 2630. The total students are 36.
Table 4 Test of Normality
Kolmogorov-Smirnov
a
Shapiro-Wilk
Statis
tic
Df
Sig.
Statistic
Df
Sig.
Result
Pre Ex
,137
36
,087
,917
36
,010
Post Ex
,136
36
,090
,929
36
,024
Pre
Control
,143
36
,060
,947
36
,086
Post
Control
,128
36
,146
,951
36
,113
a. Lilliefors Significance Correction
Based on the output normality test table 4 showed of the normality test obtained pvalue (0,087,
0,090, 0,060, 0,146) are higher than α = 0.05, it means that HO is accepted. On the other word, based on
the test result normality, the data is normality distributed.
Table 5 Homogeneity test of pre-test Control & Experimental Class
Levene Statistic
df1
df2
Sig
.765
1
70
.385
The statistic result showed, the score of homogeneity of pre-test Between Control and
Experimental is higher than α = 0.05 P-value (0.385)> α= 0.05. The result of homogeneity test is
accepted.
Table 6 Homogeneity test of post-test Control & Experimental Class
Levene Statistic
df1
df2
Sig
2.729
1
70
.103
The Statistic result showed, the score of homogeneity of post-test between Control and
Experimental is higher than α =0.05. P-value (0.103)>α = 0.05. The result of Homogeneity test is
accepted.
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Table 7 Paired Samples Test
Pried Differences
Mean
Std
Deviatio n
Std
Eror
Mean
95%
Confid
ence
Interval
of the
differen
ces
T
D
f
Sig (2
tailed
Lower
Upper
Pair 1 Pre-test Ex – Post-test
Ex
Pair2 Pre-test cont - Post-test
cont
-20.000
-14.167
4.781
7.121
.797
1.187
-21.618
-16.576
-18.382
-11.757
-25.100
-11.936
35
35
.000
.000
The statistical hypotheses as follow:
H
a
: There is a significant effect of Padlet application towards students’ narrative writing at the tenth grade
of SMAN 1 Malingping Lebak-Banten.
H
ο
: There is no significant effect of Padlet application towards students’ Banten.
The estimations are:
If p-value> α = 0.05, (H
ο
is accepted and H
a
is rejected).
If p-value< 𝛼 = 0.05, (H
a
is accepted and H
ο
is rejected).
Based on the output SPSS on table 7 It could be seen that significant value (p-value) = 0.000 at
pair 1 and 0.000 at pair 2. They are < 𝛼 = 0.05, Meanwhile H a is accepted and H
ο
is rejected. On the
other word, there is significant effect of Padlet application towards students’ narrative writing.
Discussion
From the result of analysis of the data. The research question is whether there is
significant effect of Padlet application towards narrative writing. The result showed that there
is a significant effect of students’ Padlet application towards students’ narrative writing. Based
on the calculation, the students who had been thought by Padlet application is better than the
students who had not been thought by Padlet application. In this research involved 72 tenth-grade
students, namely XE-7 and XE-10. The two classes were classified as experimental and control classes.
The two classes were given different treatments. The experimental class was given treatment using the
Padlet application, while the control class was given treatment using the google classroom. Pretest and
post-test were given to both classes.
As explained by Brown (2018:251) the writing assessment includes: Content, Organization,
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Mechanics. This assessment rubric is used as a reference in the written test
assessment that the researcher gives to students through pre-test and post-test. Based on the pre-test
results in the experimental class, the number of students are 36 people, with the highest score is 70, the
lowest score is 40, and the total 1925, meanwhile, the result of the post-test experimental class, the
highest score is 95. The lowest score is 60, and total score is 2645, the total students are 36 people, the
result of pre-test at control class, the highest score is 85, the lowest score is 40, and total score is 2120.
Meanwhile, the result of the post-test at control class, the highest score is 90, the lowest score is 60, total
score is 2630.
The discussion regarding the application of Padlet in learning to write can significantly improve
students' writing skills. This can be seen based on the average pre-test value for the control class is 58.89
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and the pre-test value for the experimental class is 53.47. From the value of the experimental class and
the control class, it means that there are differences in student achievement in the pre- test scores of the
control class and the experimental class. explained by Brown (2018:251) the writing assessment
includes: Content, Organization, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Mechanics. This assessment rubric is used
as a reference in the written test assessment that the researcher gives to students through pre-test and
post-test. explained by Brown (2018:251) the writing assessment includes: Content, Organization,
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Mechanics. This assessment rubric is used as a reference in the written test
assessment that the researcher gives to students through pre-test and post-test.
Meanwhile, the average post-test score in the control class was 73.06 and the posttest score in the
experimental class was 73.47. This means that there is also a significant difference in scores between
the control class and the experimental class in the post-test. It can be concluded that it proves that the
experimental class got a higher score than the control class, which means that the use of Padlet is very
effective towards students' writing skill. After being given the pre-test and post-test, the researcher
analyzed the data from both groups by testing for normality and homogeneity using pretest and post-test
scores. Meanwhile, to test the hypothesis, the researcher only used the post-test scores of the two groups.
The results of normality test used Kolmogorov-Smirnov with SPSS 29, a significant are 0.087,
0.090, 0.060, and 0.146 are higher than α = 0.05. So, it can be interpreted that the data from each group
is normality distributed. This means that Ho is accepted. Then, the results of homogeneity pre-test used
Levene test with SPSS 29, a significant value is 0.385 > 0.05 and the result of homogeneity post-test a
significant value is 0.103 > 0.05 means that the two classes are not significantly different so that the
variance is meaningful or it can be interpreted that the data is homogeneous. Meanwhile, to test the
hypothesis, the authors only used the post-test scores from the two classes. This is because the authors
wanted to know whether there was a difference between the two after the treatment was given and
whether there were significant results on the use of Padlet in the experimental class. From the test results
with independent simple t-test obtained t-count = -25.100 with significant 2-tailed = 0.000 < a = 0.05,
then Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. In other words, there is a significant effect of using Padlet
towards students' narrative writing.
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