Identification which identifies phenomenon that will be

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 27 aimed to find out the effectiveness using facebook to improve students skill and their motivation in writing skill. The population was tenth grade of SMAN 1 Kajen. The students of X 2 class of SMAN 1 Kajen was chosen as the sample of the study. The result showed that the use of Facebook contributes to the improvement of students’ skill and the increase in their motivation in writing recount text. From those three studies, this study is quite different in term of focus and locus. The first previous study was investigating the effectiveness of Instagram writing compared to teacher centered to teach recount text to students with high and low motivation using quasi eksperimental method. It is different with my study that this focuses on the students’ motivation in writing descriptive text using Instagram with qualitative method. For the second and third previous study, it is also different with my study. Although it described about writing skill and use website tools such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter to do research and almost the finding and discussion of the previous studies above show that using website tools was an effective tool to improve student’s writing skill. So, the previous study above becomes researcher’s guidance to do this research and the researcher is willing to use an online media named Instagram as an alternative medium to teach and motivate students in writing skill. In this context, the researcher will use describtive qualitative to describe the research. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 28

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Research Design

This study is qualitative using descriptive approach. The researcher aims to explore and describe the use of Instagram to motivate students in writing descriptive text. According to Creswell, a qualitative study seeks to build interpretive analysis based on specific data, within a flexible structure. This study using a qualitative analysis will emphasize on methods of collecting, analyzing data, and describing the results of the analysis. 59 This study take data from the students writing activities on the Instagram and their response. To answer the first research question, the researcher will do a library research before implementing Instagram mediated teaching in the class to observe students response. While to answer the second research question, the researcher will use interview guide to take the data.

B. Subject and Setting of The Study

The subject of this study is the students of 8 th grade in SMAN 1 Gresik located on Jalan Arif Rahman Hakim no 1 Gresik. There are 8 classes in 10 th grade; X MIPA 1, X MIPA 2, X MIPA 3, X MIPA 4, X MIPA 5, X MIPA 6, X MIPA 7, X MIPA 8 with different teachers. The researcher only use one class in X MIPA 3 because it is assumed that the students have writing difficulties and are not motivated to learn English writing. Based on the conversation between writerand English teacher of SMAN 1 Gresik, some of ten grade students have less interest in writing. The writer plans used to Instagram as a medium to motivate them to write.

C. The Data Collection Procedure and Instrument of The Study

In order to collect the data, first the researcher did library research. 1 Library research It means finding sources about teaching descriptive text using Instagram or Social media from online journal, book, thesis, 59 Ary, Donald. 2010 Introduction to Research in Education USA:Wadsworth, p.452.