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Journal : ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching

Instagram as a Media to Foster EFL Students’ English Writing Skill Mursyidah Saleh; Maemuna Muhayyang
ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26858/eltww.v8i2.22588

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The rapid development of technology encourages educators to create interesting learning methods that are attractive to students. Using Instagram as the learning medium in teaching, this research aimed to find out students’ writing skills improvement and their perception after being taught using Instagram. This research used a mixed-method design to analyze the students’ writing improvement and perception of the use of Instagram. To collect data, the researcher carried out a pretest and posttest of one class pre-experiment with 25 students and a semi-structured interview of ten participants who got the significant posttest writing improvement. Statistical findings revealed the students’ result of the posttest was higher than pretest, the data shows that the Significance (2-tailed) value is smaller than 0.05. It means statistically there is a significant difference between students’ pretest and posttest results. This was supported by the semi-structured interview on which the result shows the students’ perceptions of the use of Instagram as a learning medium were mostly positive. The findings of this research are relevant to the development of English Language Teaching, particularly to create interesting learning strategies that are attractive to students.
The Linguistic Features Uniqueness of the Students’ Written Discourse in Online Learning Farida Hasan; Maemuna Muhayyang
ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5, No 1 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (673.766 KB) | DOI: 10.26858/eltww.v5i1.5777

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This research aimed at finding and describing the types and the uniqueness of linguistic features used by the students in their written discourse in BritishEnglishClass.com. The researcher applied a descriptive qualitative method. The data collection was done using document analysis in form of chat history in Whatsapp and taking ten students as the participants of this study.  The result of the analysis showed that the students used six types of linguistic features namely (1) Lexical features in terms of the use of interjection, abbreviation, word letter replacement, word combination, code switching, code mixing and diction, (2) Orthographic features in terms of word spelling and capitalization, (3) Grammatical features in terms of ellipsis, passive voice, verb use, and personal pronoun, (4) Discourse features in terms of the use of interactional features and the stream of consciousness, (5) Paralinguistic and Graphic in terms of emoticon usage and excessive punctuation and, (6) other features in terms of written out laughter . These features are unique because they are different from the standard form of the language.  It can be seen also from the use of abbreviation and ellipsis that shorten the students’ sentence, the use of emoticon representing the emotions and psychical activity, the use of lower and upper case to represent the sound and the intonation of the student’ sentence, the abandonment of convention of capitalization of proper nouns and the first words of sentences, and the creative orthography of some words. The linguistic features used by the students were different from the standard form and their function that allowed the student to express and emphasize their intention, meaning and emotion in the chat room make the students’ written discourse in online learning is uniqueKeywords: uniqueness, linguistic features