Abstract :
This research was conducted in New English Course (NEC) by applying
pre-experimental design that consisted of 5 students. This study used blended
learning method to teach writing, especially paragraph comparison and contrast. It
consisted of 6 meetings where each offline and online class had 3 meetings. This
aimed to see whether the students? writing ability could improve or not. The data
were collected from pre-test and post-test. Both of those tests, students were asked
to write comparison and contrast paragraphs based on the specific topic. Content,
organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics were the criteria for
accumulating the students' writing score. Based on the data, the result indicated an
increasing of students? score. In the pre-test, most of students had low scores but
after giving treatments to the students, there was an increase in the students? post-
test scores. Another comparison that showed the improvement of students' writing
could be seen from the mean score and t-test. The mean score of the pre-test
was 70.60 higher than the post test, 84.80. In addition, the t-test result was higher
than the t-table, namely 7,443 > 2,132. Therefore, using blended learning method
can enhance the students' writing achievement which is in line with the hypothesis
test where H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected.