Caption Power: Transforming Writing Skill through Instagram for University Students
Abstract
Indonesian students still have difficulties learning writing skill. The students may produce many errors in writing text. Such as in structure, there are no tenses in Indonesian, so many students are confused about using the right tenses for their writing assessment. The objective of the research is to find out the effectiveness of using Instagram Caption to improve students writing skill. This research is designed in quantitative descriptive. The data are collected by questionnaire, interview, and writing test. To analyze the data, the researcher look at the result of writing test. The result shows Instagram Caption effectively to improve students writing ability. In addition, Instagram Caption make the students more interested and explore their ideas into writing ability.
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