ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF WATTPAD AS DIGITAL LITERACY FOR READING SKILLS AT MA DARUS SHOLAH

Hidayatullah, Muhammad Taufik (2024) ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF WATTPAD AS DIGITAL LITERACY FOR READING SKILLS AT MA DARUS SHOLAH. Undergraduate thesis, UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI KIAI HAJI ACHMAD SIDDIQ JEMBER.

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Abstract

Keywords: Digital literacy, Wattpad Application, Students’ Perception, Reading
skill.
Traditional teaching make students fast to be bored and it is difficult to disgest
teachers don’t use different teaching strategies.However, currently in this digital or
technology era, there are several space that are used as students’ learning media and
alternative teacher teaching to reduce students’ problems in learning and
understanding the material. As a result, the teacher try to utilise the potential of
Wattpad by students’ perception with three components of perceptions (cognitive,
affective, and conative) in reading short story becausethere were several things that
eleventh grade students of MA Darus Sholah still didn't understand, such as poor
grammar, lack of vocabulary in their English. In addition, they didn’tunderstanding
something they read or comprehend in reading.
The focus of this research are as follows; 1) How is the students’ cognitive
perception on the use of Wattpad as digital literacy for reading skills at MA Darus
Sholah? 2) How is the students’ affective perception on the use of Wattpad as digital
literacy for reading skills at MA Darus Sholah? 3) How is the students’ conative
perception on the use of Wattpad as digital literacy for reading skills at MA Darus
Sholah?
This study focused to find of the students’ perceptions on the use of Wattpad
application as a digital literacy, and not far from the three components by Walgito
about perceptions (cognitive, affective, and conative component), and also to provide
a new or easy ways for alternative media for English Foreign Language (EFL)
students in and outside of the school. Next is for the research of this study used a
qualitative design. To find the data of this study is use questionnaire of two items
(yes or no) which had 15 questions consist of the three components (cognitive,
affective, and conative component). After collecting the data of the questionnaire, the
researcher also use in-depth interview of four students. Thus, to analyze the data of
this research, the researcher using a reducing and coding the data.
The result explain that wattpad was useful to increase the motivation of
students’ in giving better engagement in reaching the literacy competence and after
reading short story on Wattpad application, most of students’ said that wattpad had
unique and fun features and wattpad to support students’ literary competence
achievement.The result of this study answered in terms what the students’
perceptions on the use of the Wattpad application in three components of perceptions
(cognitive, affective, conative). In the conative component, Wattpad application
could be a learning media in teaching reading skill especially story in this modern or
digital literacy era. It was because in the affective component, it showed that with
comfortable and not boring features on the Wattpad application, students felt happy
and enjoyed when they read story.And in the conative component show that students
could be independent learning to read story on the Wattpad application and also were
able to read it in the ouside of the school.

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