THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DUOLINGO ANDROID APPLICATION AND AUTONOMOUS LEARNING TO ENHANCE THE STUDENTS' WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCES (A Classroom Action Research for the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Bhakti Nusantara Salatiga in the Academic Year 2018/2019)

Latief, Ja'far Abdu (2019) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DUOLINGO ANDROID APPLICATION AND AUTONOMOUS LEARNING TO ENHANCE THE STUDENTS' WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCES (A Classroom Action Research for the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Bhakti Nusantara Salatiga in the Academic Year 2018/2019). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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The Implementation of Duolingo Android Application and Autonomous Learning to Enhance the Students’ Writing Simple Sentences (A Classroom Action Research for the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Bhakti Nusantara Salatiga in the Academic Year 2018/2019). A Graduating Paper, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga. Counselor: Hammam, M.Pd., Ph.D. This research aims to find out whether the implementation of Duolingo Android Application and Autonomous Learning can enhance the students’ writing simple sentences. This research was conducted in SMK Bhakti Nusantara Salatiga. The subjects of the research were 23 students of class X KP (Keperawatan). This research was classroom action research that was conducted in two cycles. Each cycles consisted of two meetings. This research used qualitative data and was supported by quantitative data. The qualitative data were collected from student’s and teacher’s observation checklist. Maenwhile, the qualitative data were collected score from pre-test I, pre-test II, post-test I, and post-test II. The implementation of Duolingo Android Application and Autonomous Learning in teaching learning process could enhance the students’ writing simple sentences. The students got more ideas to enrich their writing. On the other hand they are interested about written text after used Duolingo Android Application and motivated in the learning process by themselves. The result of this research that implementing the Duolingo and Autonomous Learning could enhance the students’ writing simple sentences. The students’ score of writing by implementing Duolingo and Autonomous Learning is better than not implementing Duolingo. The mean pre-test and post-test of cycle I are 67.65 to 73.13. The mean of pre-test and post-test of cycle II are 71.04 to 73.78. The target of the passing grade is 80% of the students who pass the passing grde. It shows that the students’ percentages who passed the passing grade of post-test cycle II is higher than post-test cycle I. It means that the target is successfully achieved. It could be concluded that implementing Duolingo and Autonomous Learning could enhance the students’ writing simple sentences. Keywords: writing simple sentences, autonomous learning, Duolingo Android Application

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