Language Teaching Media Theoretical Description

12 of who turned in the assignments and when. Students can also ask everything regarding to academic problems outside the school time. Second, Edmodo is designed to engage students’ motivation in learning process because of various platform provided in this application. The features of the platform are quizzes, assignments, online tests, messages, comments and document libraries. Through these features, students will not be bored to do the learning process and they will be more motivated. According to Balasubramanian, et al. 2014, if teachers implement Edmodo in the classroom, it will be a powerful medium in their learning environment. In her research, Kara 2016 also states that by using Edmodo, students can do their individual or group assignment online and teachers look at their works and give feedback online p. 11. Moreover, based on the previous study that was done by Apriani 2015 56.7 of the students believed that Edmodo was an effective educational website to learn English, especially writing. Furthermore, Bayne n.d. feels that Edmodo permits students to develop their creativity through writing p. 2. Next, Thompson n.d. also believes that Edmodo is great for writing projects, language practice, grammar practice and many more p. 6. He also adds that in Edmodo, all works on all assignments are available and archived well because it has an outstanding memory p. 8. Therefore, Edmodo can be one of the media for teachers to encourage students practice their writing skill. Even though students and teachers do not meet in the classroom, their teacher can still give some meaningful feedback to their writing directly. Besides, students can comment on each other about their writing, so that their writing will be better than before. However, to use Edmodo 13 both students and teacher have to connect their mobile device or laptop to the internet Bayne, n.d., p. 2. Unfortunately, not all the classrooms have access to the Internet. Thus, teachers need to provide the classroom with a good internet connection. Bayne also adds that “since Edmodo is an online medium, there will be lag time in feedback response from peers and teacher” p. 2. Besides, if it is done outside the classroom, some students might not have the tools to connect to Edmodo. Moreover, the use of Edmodo might lead students to do the ethical issues such as copying and cheating on others’ work Enriquez, 2014. It means that it will provoke students to do plagiarism in educational field. However, the researcher will ensure that students will not do such things in this study.

3. Writing Skill

Writing is one of important skills in English. Generally, writing is production of someone’s idea which is written into media such as papers, computers and gadgets. The production itself can be used as information, knowledge, and entertainment for the reader. Moreover, according to Elbow 1973, pp. 14-16, as cited in Brown, 2001, “writing is a transaction with words whereby you free yourself from what you presently think, feel, and perceive.” Brown 2001 adds writing is as a thinking process where the writer will go through some processes such as generating the ideas, organizing them, putting them cohesively, revising, editing, and producing a final product of writing p. 335. Therefore, writing is not easy because it involves some processes. 14 DeVoss, Aadahl and Hicks 2010 state when the writer writes something, shehe allows time to brainstorm and to experiment then revise what they have written p. 21. They also said when people write, they do not only become writers but also a reader who makes the work become a particular rhetorical situation. It means the writer has to be able to make the reader feel the atmosphere of hisher writing. It should also influence the reader. Nowadays people live in 21 st century where technology might become the central of everything especially an educational field. There are some students who might also realize that almost all their assignments are done by technology even students nowadays mig ht prefer to use technology gadget to write teacher’s explanation in the classroom. That is why the use of media especially technology in writing classroom is not only the tool for students to improve their writing but also can it be used as a new teaching form of writing which involves both texts and images Hyland, 2009, p. 60. Moreover, Hyland 2009 also adds that the use of electronic technology on writing allows students to combine written texts with visual and audio media easily and to access more information and to connect to the information in new ways. Hence, the existence of media in learning writing can be a breakthrough for teachers to be used in the classroom. Teachers can easily provide some pictures or audio to help students to develop their writing assignments. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI