The Implementation of Instagram Post as Visual Media to Improve Students' Descriptive Text Writing Skill at the 10th Grade of SMA Darul Ulum Tempeh

Yusro, lana (2023) The Implementation of Instagram Post as Visual Media to Improve Students' Descriptive Text Writing Skill at the 10th Grade of SMA Darul Ulum Tempeh. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH. Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: Writing skill, Descriptive Text, Instagram Post

This study aimed to improve students writing skill on descriptive text through Instagram media at the 10th grade of SMA Darul Ulum Tempeh who had a problem in writing. Based on interview with the English teacher, the students’ writing achievement was still low which was percentage 34% or 13 students who passed the KKM score and the average score was 68,8. It happened because the students had a problem in writing skill such as the students had many ideas but they did not know how to express it, they lacked of vocabulary, they did not really understand about grammar, and they felt bored with the media used in writing activity. After discussing with the English teacher, we decided to implement Instagram as media to teach writing and could solve the writing problem in the class.

The research question of this research was “How is the implementation of Instagram post as visual media able to improve students’ descriptive text writing skill at the 10th grade of SMA Darul Ulum Tempeh?”.

The study used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research design was a collaborative classroom action research. The participants of this research were the students of 10th B of SMA Darul Ulum Tempeh which consisted of 38 students. This research was carried out in one cycle, which consisted of planning, acting observing, and reflecting. Data collection technique used in this research were students’ writing test, observation, interview, and fieldnote. This research used content validity, which involved the English teacher and the English lecturer as validator of the writing test. The criteria of success in this research were if the students reached the KKM score (75) are equal to or higher than 65% of total students in this research. The result of the students’ writing test score after the cycle showed that the average score was 78 and the students who passed the KKM score were 73% or 28 students and for students who did not pass the KKM score was 27% or 10 students. From the result of students’ average score, it could be concluded that this research was successful.

Based on the result of the research, it was concluded that by applying Instagram they could more creative and motivated to express their idea related to the topic, they could enrich their vocabulary and their grammar was better than before. In other words, it can be said that the use of Instagram application in learning to write descriptive text at SMA Darul Ulum Tempeh is recommended to improve students’ abilities to achieve optimal result.

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