Abstract
The development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) offers many solutions for the teacher to use an effective learning platform to improve students’ writing skills. Schoology is a learning application that can be used by teachers and students to teach and to learn writing. This paper aims to explain the use of Schoology in teaching writing and its benefits for students’ writing skills. Literature study was used as the method of this study in collecting the data. The study found that: 1). Students who were taught by using Schoology had better writing skill than those who were not. 2). Schoology was found effective media for teaching writing due to its easiness and friendly display. The findings are expected to be an alternative learning media used by both teachers and students in supporting the teaching and learning process in writing.
Highlights
Writing is one of the four English language learning skills that is considered an influential communication model
According to Permana and Santosa (2018), Schoology is one of Learning Management System (LSM) that enables teachers to connect with students through a social network
Schoology belongs to asynchronous learning because students can access the material without time limitations, and there is no live communication between students and teachers
Summary
Writing is one of the four English language learning skills that is considered an influential communication model. The importance of writing skills makes students need to develop their writing skills for their personal development and academic success. It can be defined that writing is a complex activity that makes students can face several problems during writing’s activity. According to Yusuf et al, (2019) students have several difficulties in writing, such lack of knowledge of English vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The authors further explain that those problems will contribute to the students’ lack of interest in writing. It makes writing become the most challenging skill among the four skills of English language learning
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