Tusyanah Tusyanah, Risma Nur Anissa, Norma Chayatina, Wijang Sakitri, Sri Utami
APJII mentioned there were 143.26 million internet users in Indonesia in 2017. Then, Gunduz (2017) revealed that there were many purposes of people doing online activities; such as communication, interaction, doing business, and self-expressions. Local Guide is a selfexpression social media and it is a feature of Google Maps which let us contribute reviewing the places. The objectives of this study are to; (1) describe the implementation of Outdoor Learning Process (OLP) strategy through Local Guide utilization, (2) know the improvement of students' English writing skill after having the strategy. It was One Group Pre-Test Post-Test Design. There were pre-Test and post-Test to know students' English writing improvement during the implementation of this strategy. The quantitative data were analyzed by SPSS 22. The results of the study showed that: 1) the implementation of Outdoor Learning Process (OLP) strategy through Local Guide utilization consists of three (3) phases; they were: At first, preparation phase. The second was the implementation phase which students were given 3 (three) months to explore their world and reviewed the places they visited. The third phase was monitoring and evaluation. There were 278 students to explore the places during OLP learning strategy and then to review them in English. They had to consider the vocabulary, grammar, punctuations and other writing. The pretest and posttest scores were from 80.91 to 84.29. Then, the significance of the pretest and posttest analyzed with one-sample t-Test is 0.000. If 0.000 <0.05; it means that there was significant difference of students' skills English writing between pretest and posttest. Furthermore; based on the observation; students' responses were very enthusiastic and happy to follow the learning strategy. © 2019 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
