writing is to get students to write to each other.”
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And this goes fit to the features of Edmodo most of which give students to write
to each other since in its application Edmodo micro-blogging can be incorporated into classroom activities include pen-pal activity,
creating polls for student‟s response, embedding video clips and other media to support students learning. And it is therefore in
this present study, the writer tries to come up with the working hypothesis proposing that if Edmodo micro-blogging used as a
tool in teaching writing, students will experience a new writing activity which is motivating. And more importantly, it can be
used for the class improvement.
B. Research Questions and Research Focus
All the previously discussed reasons urged the researcher to conduct a study and investigate how Edmodo micro-blogging
helps students in learning English, particularly in learning writing recount and narrative text.
Based on the previously discussed background, the present study tries to seek the answer from the following
questions: 1
How micro-blogging assisted learning strategy is used for teaching writing to the tenth grade students of Al- Azhar
BSD? 2
How does micro-blogging assisted learning strategy give impact on student
‟s writing activity? The research focus of this present study
is student‟s writing activity that occurs in
student‟s daily learning at Islamic Senior High School Al-Azhar Bumi Serpong Damai, meanwhile the
subject in this present study is intentionally focused only to the tenth grade students in which micro-blogging assisted learning
strategy used by the writer in teaching writing, recount and narrative text in particular.
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Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach Writing Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited, 2004, p. 5.
C. Purpose of the Study
Referring to the background and the problems of the present study, generally speaking the purpose of the present study
aims at getting information about the utilization of micro- blogging assisted learning strategy for teaching writing to the
tenth grade students. And more specifically, the aim of this present study is to get the information about;
1. The description of the micro-blogging assisted learning
strategy implementation in teaching writing. 2.
The description of the impact of the micro-blogging assisted learning strategy on
student‟s writing activity.
D. Significance of the Study
This present study tries to investigate a real condition that occurs related to English teaching learning activity, a writing
activity in particular, at Islamic Senior High School Al-Azhar Bumi Serpong Damai. It is expected that this study will have
significant relation to English teaching learning process. Practically, this study will
describe student‟s writing activity in writing recount and narrative text by using Edmodo micro-
blogging. It is therefore this present study is expected to be beneficial to the writer, English teacher, students, and other
researchers,
For the writer, this study is intentionally used as a self- reflective technique for answering writing activity problems he
found in the classroom. For the English teachers, it is hoped that micro-blogging assisted learning strategy can be used by the
English teachers, particularly at Al-Azhar BSD, as an additional option to be used for teaching writing and Edmodo can be used as
a tool for writing activity. For the students, it is hoped that s
tudents are able to give correction on student‟s writing, and particularly be able to use blog for learning writing. And for other
researchers, this present study is expected to be used as an additional reference related to the utilization of ICT in the
Educational setting, besides this can also be used as a comparison to do similar research.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURES
