Padlet as media to improve writing mastery of english department students of uniska 2015-2016
- DOI
- 10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- padlet, writing mastery, descriptive writing
- Abstract
Multimedia has been spread out and used by many students in their lives, but it rarely uses multimedia as one of medias that used in teaching learning process. The objective of this study is to know whether the use of padlet as the media that can improve the students' mastery in descriptive writing, especially the students in the third semester of english departement of uniska. The research's design used was classroom action research, consisted of two cycles. Each cycles consisted of three opportunities for students to have interaction using padlet. The cycles consisted of planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The instruments used in this research were observation check list and writing test using padlet. Padlet was introduced from the first time of learning teaching process in the class and the following interactions were using padlet without having direct interaction in the classroom. The first cycle was not successful, because the students got difficulty in managing time in accessing padlet and some errors in their grammatical used. Then in the second cycle, the result showed that 18 from 20 students passed the minimum score and all students did all assignments using padlet. From the result, it can be concluded that the implementation of padlet as the media can improve students' writing mastery.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Pritantina yuni Lestari PY - 2017/08 DA - 2017/08 TI - Padlet as media to improve writing mastery of english department students of uniska 2015-2016 BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 184 EP - 188 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.41 DO - 10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.41 ID - Lestari2017/08 ER -