THE USE OF WHATSAPP AS A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING TEACHING MEDIA IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ASLAHAH; DYAH NUGRAHENY PRIASTUTI

Authors

ASLAHAH IKIP Widya Darma
DYAH NUGRAHENY PRIASTUTI IKIP Widya Darma

Keywords:

WhatsApp, Writing Skill, Descriptive text

Abstract

This research aims to describe the use of WhatsApp as descriptive text writing teaching media at grade VIII of Darussyahid junior high school in Sampang. Most of the students have problems in writing, such as poor vocabulary, difficulty with word sounds, spellings, and meanings, difficulty with sentence structure and word order being a barrier for them to write. For helping the students who found it difficult to build a sentence when making a descriptive text paragraph during the teaching-learning process, the teacher used Whatsapp as the learning media. In the teaching and learning process, the grammar review method became an effective method for the students to build sentences they need to develop a descriptive text. The design of this research is a descriptive qualitative research design. This research shows the teacher used several steps in applying a grammar review method in the WhatsApp class, such as explaining and showing the technique of making a sentence. At the beginning of the learning-teaching process, the students were shown how to use WhatsApp to help them be more active in the teaching-learning process. After the class started, the teacher applied the grammar review method to make the students easier to make a correct sentence.

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