Linguists: Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching
Vol 4, No 2 (2018)

THE USE OF WIKI WEBSITE: A SOLUTION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING PERFORMANCE

Defry Azhari (Universitas Negeri Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 Mar 2019

Abstract

This paper aims at sharing merits of wiki as one of fruitful educational technology in facilitating students to improve their writing’s performance in language classrooms. In implementing, this paper recommends CBLM with the stages are combination of positive input from the previous study: (1) training of using wiki, (2) grouping the students, (3) drafting, (4) revising, (5) editing, and (6) publishing. The results reveal Wiki and its merits can encourage students to be independent learners because they are able to effectively participate and contribute in writing their essays by sharing ideas, editing, and supporting to each other. The teachers, especially in Indonesia, can implement wiki by using CBLM in all level of students. However, teachers must adjust and consider some important aspects before utilize it in the classroom depend on students’ need and classroom environment.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

linguists

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching contains the research manuscripts related to the broad areas of Linguistics and English Language Teaching. The journal is published twice a year (July and October) by Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bengkulu and is based at the Department of Tadris ...