The Effect of Instagram Social Media on Improving Arabic Vocabulary for Grade VIII Junior High School Students Muhammadiyah 5 Mariso Makassar City

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out: 1) the effect of using
Instagram social media on the improvement of Arabic
vocabulary of students in class VIII SMP Muhammadiyah 5
Mariso. 2) the effect of using Instagram social media on the
improvement of Arabic vocabulary of students in class VIII SMP
Muhammadiyah 5 Mariso. The type of research used is
experimental research with a quantitative approach. Data
collection methods in this research are observation,
documentation and written test. The data analysis technique
used the SPSS 24 application. The results showed that: 1) The
use of Instagram social media to increase the Arabic vocabulary
of 8th grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Mariso has an
effect. This is shown from the student learning outcomes in the
control class with an increase of 27.5 with an average pretest
score of 52.50 and an average posttest score of 80.00. While
student learning outcomes in the experimental class with an
increase of 54.43 with an average pretest score of 34.88 and an
average posttest score of 89.31. 2) The form of the effect of using
Instagram social media on increasing the Arabic vocabulary of
class VIII students of SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Mariso can be
seen in the results of hypothesis testing where the t-count result
is 11.781. While the t table for the df value of 15 and the
significance value of 0.025 is 2.131. Thus, because the value of
t count is 11.781> t table 2.131, then as a basis for decision
making above it can be concluded that H_o is rejected and H_a
is accepted. This means that the results of the hypothesis show
that ‘The use of Instagram social media has an effect in
increasing Arabic vocabulary’.