An investigation of the Effect of Online News Items and News Paper on The Students’ Writing Outcome of EFL Context

¹ Department of Informatic, University of KH. Bahaudin Mudhary, Indonesia Madura
² Department of English Study, STKIP PGRI, Madura, Indonesia
³ Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trunojoyo, Indonesia Madura

^* Corresponding author: mustain@unibamadura.ac.id

Abstract

This paper aims to report the investigation of the effect of online news items on students’ writing outcome of English as foreign language context. This research used quantitative methods with quasiexperimental research designs with non-equivalent groups’ pretest-posttest design. Two groups which 46 students were the experimental and control groups and both groups were given with some different treatments. Those treatments were given in a balanced and intensive manner without intervention from factors beyond the researcher’s control. The tests were then employed as the instrument to gain data with ANCOVA as design of analysis technique and SPSS as media to compute. The findings showed that online news items have strengthened students’ writing abilities and motivated students to write related problems. The results obtained from this study proven that the P-value (0.016) <0.05 (alpha). A criterion is if the Pvalue <alpha (0.05) means that the hypothesis (H0) is rejected and (Ha) is accepted. There are significant differences in student grades. Therefore, it can be concluded that students taught using online news items media were better than students who only use textbook media.