This journal contains Instagram caption as online learning media on the extended writing subject in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic. Instagram is one of the popular culture products in the digital era. It is one of choices to be online learning media especially in improving writing. Most of people have Instagram account in the recent time. They are very active in using Instagram. Anything can be viral on this platform. This study presents the students' perceptions of using social media Instagram. The data were analyzed by using qualitative standard of research. The result of this research is there are the advantages in using of Instagram caption as online learning media on the subject of extended during pandemic of Covid-19. The first advantage shows that participants can understand grammatical English like understanding on simple past tenses, subject-verb agreement and spelling correctly. The second, the participants can build their confidence in English writing by writing some Instagram captions. The third, the participants do writing as a daily habit. They are stimulated to write English captions in the lockdown time. The fourth, the participants got improving vocabularies.
Speaking is one of the most challenging skills in learning English. Many obstacles are faced when learning to speak, such as lack of motivation, fear of making mistakes, and lack of self-confidence. These problems are often found during the teaching and learning process in the classroom. A teacher is expected to continue innovating for exciting and fun learning methods and media to increase learning interest, motivation, confidence, and creativity in speaking. It is needed not only in the classroom but also in independent learning. This study aims to discover students' perception of the learning process for their speaking skills through using vlogs as a self-learning media and the effect of using vlogs on students' motivation, confidence and creativity. The researcher took the research object of the English Language Teaching Department students in UNU Purwokerto. The data were obtained by giving a speaking project as a vlog with a specific theme. Data collection was conducted by providing questionnaires and interviews to find out students' perceptions about the effect of using vlogs for the improvement of motivation, confidence and creativity and also observing the students' vlogs to find out the learning process of speaking from the aspect of pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Data analysis is qualitative descriptive with theories from Dulay and Fromkin (1982). This study found that based on students' perceptions, they agreed that using vlogs improved their motivation, confidence and creativity. Meanwhile, based on the observation, it was found that there were some pronunciation errors and grammar mistakes in the students' speaking, but they showed improvement in choosing vocabulary. Some students used a variety of vocabularies that were rarely used in the class.
The research contains the analysis of the use of Wattpad for practicing a fiction writing as an alternative learning media and method to improve the students’ writing skills, It was conducted in English Language Teaching Department, UNU Purwokert by taking 37 students as research object. This study used mix method approach by using qualitative and quantitative. Data collection was carried out by purposive sampling where researchers collected data through pre-test and post-test, questionnaires and interview to 37 students. It aimed to perceive the improvement of students’ writing skill, the students’ perception about Wattpad in building writing habit, interest, motivation and confidence in writing. The result of study showed there are improvements in writing skill after treatment mainly in idea/imagination development, organization such as building plot, characterizations and conflict. For grammar wise, it showed the improvement in vocabulary, part of speech and tenses, The activity also stimulates students' motivation and confidence to learn English, especially in terms of writing. It affects to the classroom atmosphere between lecturers and students because the class becomes more lively and interactive.
This research attempts to find out the writing competence of college students, detect the cause of the problems and propose some suggestion to deal with the problem. The population of this research is the second Semester students of English Education Department UNU Purwokerto. Since the number of population is less than 100 students the writer took them all as sample. It means that the number of sample is the same as the number of the population that is 39 students. The method of this research was descriptive. This research was conducted on May 2018. The instrument used in this research is a test. The computation of the data to find out writing competence uses percentage formula. After the data has been analysed, the data showed that the writing competence is 62.64%, it means that the writing competence of the second semester students of English Education Department UNU Purwokerto is good. The most problems of the students are grammatical. Those are the pattern of tenses, addition, and misformation.Key words: writing, competence, descriptive, college students, grammatical problems
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