Integrating Instagram As A Media In Engaging Students Learn To Write Recount Text

Abstract

This study discusses how Instagram is used as media in engaging students to learn to write
recount text. This study aims to look at how student engagement and students perspectives
on the use of Instagram as media in learning to write recount text. The use of Instagram as
media in learning to write recount texts is considered as a communicative and flexible
media. Thus, it can be used to study inside the classroom and outside the classroom. This
research design belongs to Classroom research by involving six undergraduate students.
Student engagement are obtained through several instruments such as: observation sheets,
interview guides, and documentation. The procedure of this research consists of Pre-
Lesson, While-Lesson, and Post-Lesson. Data that has been obtained from some of these
instruments is analyzed using the Miles and Huberman Method. The results of this study
illustrate that there are two phases of Instagram that assist students learn to write, they are
the photo selection phase and the caption writing phase where Instagram can stimulate
student writing ideas and write them on the photo caption page. In addition, students
respond well when using Instagram as a learning medium for writing because they are
motivated to write well