The WordWall Application on the Ability to Understand Short Stories
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https://doi.org/10.52760/jadila.v6i4.858Keywords:
Effectiveness, WordWall Application, Short StoryAbstract
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how well students can write short stories using the WordWall application. A quantitative pre-experimental study with a One-Group Pretest-Posttest design was the research methodology employed. Purposive sampling was used to choose the subjects, who were 10th-grade Accounting 2 students at SMKN 1 Polewali's Technical Implementation Unit (UPTD). A short narrative performance test was employed as the research tool, and it was given both before and after the WordWall learning media intervention (pretest and posttest). A questionnaire to gauge replies and an observation sheet were also included of the research tool.. The average pretest score for students was 72.17, with categories ranging from low to good, according to the findings of the quantitative descriptive data analysis. The average posttest score rose to 97.83 after the treatment, and every participant was rated as exceptional. The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test hypothesis test revealed an Asymp. Sig. <0.001, indicating that H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted.
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