The Effect of Moodle Implementation in English for Multimedia Classroom on Students’ Achievement in Reading and Writing

Moodle is an application that serves to create and conduct internet-based courses/training/education. In this paper, the researchers attempted to find out whether using Moodle is effective to increase student’s achievement especially on reading and writing English for multimedia. This research conducted at Politeknik Negri Media Kreatif, especially on Multimedia program. English subject in this campus is not a general English that focuses on grammar, but rather English for specific purposes in which English application should be related to every department, such as English for Multimedia. Before investigating the effectiveness of Moodle, the researchers created Moodle based learning system. After that, Moodle was used in experimental class as a treatment. researchers collected the data by administrating reading multiple choice test and writing an essay. The reading test consisted 30 multiple choice questions with 5 options both in pre-test and posttest. In computing Independent t-test, founded that sig. (2-tailed) for reading was 0.000 and for writing was also 0.00. Both sig values were less than 0.05, it meant that there was a significant effect of using Moodle in teaching English for Multimedia on students’ achievement in Reading. However, Moodle significantly improves writing rather than reading in which the t-test of writing (12.812) was greater than t-test of writing (9.128).