THE EFFECT OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING EXPOSITION TEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA SWASTA MELATI BINJAI

Authors

  • Conny Conny STKIP Budidaya
  • Efrini Panjaitan
  • Indah Lestari Br Manik

Keywords:

Effectiveness, youtube, ability in writing

Abstract

The study deals with an experimental research design which seeks for theeffect of YouTube videos on the students’ ability in writing the analyticalexposition text. 60 students at the tenth grade students of SMA Swasta Melati Binjaiwere taken as the subject of the study. Writing test in the form of five kinds of titlescomprising several phenomenal topics was used to obtain the data on the variable.The writer asked the students to choose only one title that was given. They wrotean analytical exposition that consisted of approximately 100 words for about 45minutes. The final data then was analyzed by using technique of t-test analysis thatthe coefficient was high and significant by looking at that coefficient of tcounted(3.055) was greater than the ttable coefficient (1.70113). This means that there is theeffect of YouTube videos on students’ ability in writing the analytical expositiontext of the tenth grade students of SMA Swasta Melati Binjai. Therefore, thehypothesis of the study was accepted.

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Published

2025-12-22