a new activity which they think they get used to it. As the result, the writer plan the activity called
role palying, and he cretad a group so called English Role Playing group ERP on Edmodo.
Different with the previous activity, this activity was made for the students who were only fond of
to take a part on the role playing activity on social media like facebook or twitter.
7. Some students thought that writing recount text on
Edmodo has some shortages. One of them was that Edmodo is such a public place, so that they cannot
freely express their recount text. Besides the negative opinion, in general students thought that
posted recount text and got it to be corrected by others was a good idea in writing activity. They
also thought that by using Edmodo they can write anything about themselves and or even express
their feeling. And the most important thing was that Edmodo could help them to get to know each
other.
3. Cycle III
3.1 Plan: Having discussed and shared the perception
toward the activity in the cycle II, the teacher and students plan to have a new writing activity which is
more challenging than writing usual thing like recount or narrative text. From the questionnaire result, it is found
that most of the students like to have writing activity so
called Role Playing. That‟s become the reason for the writer to adopt such activity in this cycle. And the steps
on this phase can be listed as follows;
a. Making new activity on Edmodo so called
“English Role Playing” ERP
b. Making rules about how to participate on ERP
group. In making the rules, the writer collaborate with
some students who are accustomed to take a part in role playing such as facebook and
twitter. He discussed with students and posted some rules should be followed by other
students if they wish to take a part in ERP group.
c. Asking students to change their profile picture
based on the character they chose. Due to the concept in ERP was to get students
to write something they thought interesting to be posted based on their character chosen, so it
is important for them to change their profile picture.
3.2 Action: In this phase, students are asked to post
their free writing on the specific group on Edmodo so called ERP group. The essence of this activity is that
students have the opportunity to write something they feel important to post on ERP group. In posting to this
group, they will not use their real name but the name or character they wish to play. It can be an artist, singer,
and so forth. The purpose of this activity is to let students have the free topic to discuss with, and it is
hoped will invite students to write based on their need and pace. And the steps on this phase can be listed as
follows;
d. Asking students to post their writing on ERP
group. Students were asked to post their writing on
ERP group. And the main objective was to let students have a certain purpose and audience
in mind when writing a text. This thing in line as proposed by Hyland stating that
“the writer is influenced by the addressed or invoked
audience, which means that there is an
