JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021): J-SHMIC: Journal of English for Academic

The Students’ Perspective of Using Instagram as a Writing Assignment Platform

Tenia Ramalia (Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf Tangerang)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2021

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the students’ perspective of using Instagram as a writing assignment platform. Using a qualitative research method, this study involved the students of the 2nd semester in English Department Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf Tangerang. There were 61 students in writing class who were involved as the participants. It used the technique of survey with open-ended questionnaire as the instrument of data collection The results show that almost all students have positive perspective towards Instagram as a writing assignment platform. The participants found out that Instagram was fun, easy, and effective media to be used in doing writing assignment. Although, there were also some barriers in using it such as, bad internet network and privacy issue. It can be concluded that, Instagram can be one of useful teaching media, especially for writing, as long as it is used and supervised appropriately.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jshmic

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English for Academic (J-SHMIC) is English Study Program Journal of Teacher Training and Education Faculty at Islamic University of Riau. It publishes manuscripts in printed and online versions within the fields of English Language Teaching and learning, Applied Linguistics, and ...