Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2017)

Padlet as media to improve writing mastery of english department students of uniska 2015-2016

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Pritantina yuni Lestari
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Available Online August 2017.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-441-5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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