Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 7, No 1 (2018)

USING INSTAGRAM AS A TOOL FOR ONLINE PEER-REVIEW ACTIVITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Jepri Bobby Sirait (English Department FBS Universitas Negeri Padang)
Leni Marlina (English Department FBS Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Mar 2018

Abstract

This paper is purposed to explain the procedure in using Instagram for online peer-review activity toopl in writing descriptive text for senior high school students (SMA). Instagram is chosen as the media because instagram is one of social media that is recently popular among people, expecially the teenagers. Thus, instagram is developed as the tool for online peer-review activity in writing descriptive text. There are some peer-review stages that will be applied in this paper namely self-, pair and group-revising. The instagram will be used in the group-revising stage. In using instagram as the tool, the students will give their writing to an admin, and the admin will post it on the class account. Thus, other students will give their comments then. There are some advantages in using instagram as a tool for online peer-review activity in writing descriptive text. The first advantage is using this technique will motivate students in writing. Second, using instagram will give convenient and easy to use. Then, using instagram needs less paper. After that, using instagram is more flexible in time. Using instagram allows for multimedia interaction. Last, the students will take responsibility for their works.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or ...