Abstract
<p class="Body"><em>This study examined the effect of the use of Instagram on EFL students’ writing ability. It involved 34 EFL students of an Indonesian university. The students were taught to write opinion essays with Instagram as the instructional medium. The treatment was given in six meetings, excluding the writing pre-test and post-test. The students were asked to make an opinion essay in the pre-test and post-test. They were also asked to respond to a questionnaire designed to verify their perceptions on three aspects: their competence in writing, interest in the use of Instagram in the teaching and writing, and learning process. The results of the data analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the pre-test the post-test scores. Based on the findings of this study, some recommendations are given for teachers and future researchers regarding the use of Instagram on the teaching of EFL writing.</em></p><p class="Body"><em><br /></em></p>
Highlights
It has been found that writing is one of the most difficult language skills to master. Fareed, Ashraf and Bilal (2016) claim that the major problems of undergraduate learners’ writing are insufficient linguistic proficiency, writing anxiety, reliance on the first language (L1) and weak structure organization
The first part deals with the effect of the use of Instagram on the EFL students’ writing ability
The second part was about which of the EFL students improve more in their writing ability after being taught by using Instagram
Summary
It has been found that writing is one of the most difficult language skills to master. Fareed, Ashraf and Bilal (2016) claim that the major problems of undergraduate learners’ writing are insufficient linguistic proficiency (including grammar, syntax and vocabulary), writing anxiety, reliance on the first language (L1) and weak structure organization. Writing is a language skill that needs to be acquired by students To help overcome these difficulties, information and communication technology (ICT) can be www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/selt. Social networking services (SNS) can be defined as web-based and mobile technologies which are employed for the purpose of communication It is a group of Web 2.0 e-platform which comprises several activities including socializing and online networking through various forms, such as words, pictures, and videos. Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing and video-sharing It is one of the social media tools originally designed for mobile use through application. Instagram is available in most hand handled devices which are easy to access (Al-Ali, 2014) These make Instagram more tempting to be considered and utilized as a language learning tool in classrooms
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