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Revealing Students’ Motivation and Interest in Writing Recount Text Using Mystorybook.com Budiastuti, Riana
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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Students’ writing interest and ability found in the 4th semester students of English Department in Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang (Unimus) tend to be relatively low. This background becomes the reason of undertaking this study. At this point, students depend on the miracle of paper and pen to create writing piece without considering various technology existed. In another word, the use of technology in writing is quite low or surprisingly hardly ever. In this study, students are acknowledged to an interesting site of writing such as MyStorybook.com as the media to enlarge and stimulate students’ creativity in writing, especially in writing recount text. This study aims at revealing students’ interest and motivation in writing recount text using interactive media. At least 15 students are interviewed and fill questionnaire with open-ended questions to identify their interests and motivation in creating recount text. The result indicates that MyStorybook.com offers invaluable opportunity and new challenge for students to write using some attractive assistance in it. In addition, students’ creativity increases along with their imagination to visualize what kind of story they are trying to create by adding several picture and shape options in order to adorn their writing pieces in recount text.
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