The Effectiveness of WordUp Application on Students’ Writing

Abstract
The progress of education with access to technology for several years can improve the
quality of education. Using technology in learning processes online or offline found
outthe weaknesses and strengths of delivering materialis. Hence, the use of WordUp
Application, which is one of the technologies that can be used to insert vocabulary in
writingskills. The method used for research was quasi-experimental with two group
pretest- posttest. The participants of this study were students in eight at SMP Negeri 1
Belitang II. The research was conducted by 8 meetings, 6 meetings for treatments and 2
meetings for pretest-posttest. The research data collection used normality test of
kolmogorov smirnov, atest of levene test homogeneity, paired sample t-test and
independent sample test on SPSS 25 program. The result of the research showed the
different significance before and after treatment with data analysis criteria of t-test that
H0 (null hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (alternative hypothesis) was accepted if value
probably (p) lower than alpha (<) 0,05. The conclusion of the study showed the
effectiveness of using WordUp Application on studentswriting.