Research Paper
Year: 2022 | Month: January | Volume: 9 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 129-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20220118
The Impact of Using Twitter as a Pedagogical Tool on Improving Writing Skills of English Language Education Students
Risnawati1, Abdurrachman Faridi2, Sri Wuli Fitriati3
1English Language Education Study Program.
2,3Graduate Program, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia.
Corresponding Author: Risnawati
ABSTRACT
This study was a qualitative research method focused on a case study approach. This study aimed to find out the impact of pedagogical Twitter on improving the writing skills of English Language Education students at Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah (UNIMUDA) Sorong. The sample of this study was 27 students of the English Language Education Study Program in the academic year 2020/2021. The sampling technique of this study used a purposive sampling technique. Invalidating the data, I used methodological and investigator triangulation. The instrument of this study had validated by expert judgment invalidating the data. The data of this study had collected through students writing text, tweets from Twitter, and interviews. After collecting the data, I used Brown’s rubric score to analyze students’ writing text, and tweets from their Twitter accounts as a pre-test and post-test. The interview item became the last instrumental in exploring the impact of Twitter on improving students writing skills. The analysis found that Twitter became an effective tool in enhancing students’ writing skills. The result showed from five categories of Brown’s assessing writing skills: students writing content of 83.33%, the organization was 81.48%, grammar structures of 85.19%, vocabulary had 82.41%, and mechanism had 100.00%. The result concluded that Twitter was more influential in improving students writing skills. The average of each category was an outstanding category. In short, Twitter became an effective pedagogical tool in helping students to improve their writing skills. In addition, Twitter has functioned as social media, but it has integrated into the teaching and learning process.
Keywords: Twitter, Pedagogical Tool, Writing Skills.
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