Background of the Study
twelfthgrade of senior high school. Based on the Curriculum of 2013 syllabus, portfolio assessment becomes one of instruments
to assess students’ competence especially in assessing Narrative text. Students need to collect their note taking,
paper and peer-assessment in the end of the class. This activity is considered as portfolio which some people define it as a traditional method for grading.
In writing, several processes must be overcome to produce good writing. The first step is prewriting and the next steps are drafting, peeradult revising, editing
and publishing. Some people simplified the peeradult revising as proof reading. For some students, facing writing task is somehow frustrated. In fact, some
students are good in writing on their mother tongue. Besides, the others are better write in target language. But sometimes, students are good to write in both mother
tongue and target languages. These facts lead to the asumption that translation from mother tongue to target language or target language to mother tongue is
affected students’ performance in writing skill. In addition, the issues of cross culture understanding are also believed that it will affect their writing using target
language. Traditionally, writing is performed in pieces of papers. For some people, this
media claimed to be non-efficient, complicated and ineffective ways. Unfortunately, some people somehow do less effort to master writing skill. So,
they conclude that writing considered as boring and uninteresting activities. Today, especially in English learning, many teachers use ICT for language
learning. For some reasons, the use of ICT is preffered than others. Firstly, it provides an innovation in teaching English instead of conventional method like
face to face class meeting, the use of paper based book and many more. Moreover, its efficiency is also fascinating for some teachers to save their energy and time.
The use of ICT in language learning wi ll raise students’ interest so it will be
more effective especially in learning Narrative. It leads to the fact that portfolio is no longer effective in the middle of the expansion of technology because the lack
of teacher-student and student-student feedback. This is becoming one of the disadvantages of using portfolio. In contrast, learning writing skill needs
appropriate language learning media and feedback opportunity because students need to reflect what they have done with.
Having deal with the writing issues, an appropriate approach in teaching writing is obviously needed. In order to bridge the problems in developing writing
skill, the researcher offers blog as a language learning media to enhance students’
writing skill. The existence of blog becomes very useful in developing students writing skill because it has many features, efficiency, and effectivity to be
conducted as language learning media to enhance students writing skill. The expansion of technology drives people to use it as an alternative way in
learning writing skill. Blog is becoming familiar because of its features. Blog allows people to access it everywhere in anytime which makes more efficient.
That’s why the use of blog as one of alternative language learning media has been practicing around in education sector nowadays. Bull states in his article that blog
will challenge teacher and students to develop writing in authentic ways.
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Moreover, the use of blog as an online tool will be more efficient to be accessed by everyone rather than hard tool as a conventional one. Usually, the
traditional one is lack in giving peer feedback because it merely read by the teacher. Blog also offers an advantage which it can be an e-portfolio instead the
conventional portfolio. Beyond this reason, peer feedback through blogging will simultaneously create an efficient and effective learning environment. In
conclusion, the use of blog as one of language learning media is affordable to think writing in different way