Using Smartphone in Online Group Discussion in Online Writing Class (A Study at MAN 1 Curup)

Monica, Putri Sanda and Suhermanto, Hadi and Utami, Henny Septia (2023) Using Smartphone in Online Group Discussion in Online Writing Class (A Study at MAN 1 Curup). Sarjana thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Curup.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate at the use of smartphones in online group discussions to improve students' writing skills. Researchers use mixed research methods that are presented descriptively to describe it. The researcher uses Interview which refers to the qualitative method and the questionnaire refers to the quantitative method. The subjects of this study were English teachers and students of language class MAN 1 Rejang lebong. The result of the study shows that there are four objectives in online discussion groups for students to improve their writing skills when studying online. Namely: writing skills, smartphone, online group discussion and whatsApp application. in the interview section, the researcher interviewed 25 students and of the 15 students who were classified as getting low and high scores, the researcher gave a questionnaire. Students who completed the questionnaire received positive results from the four objects or indicators they desired to see, as evidenced by the percentage greater than 50%. Based on the result and discussion of this research, the researcher took some conclusions of using smartphone in online group discussion in online writing class. The results compared by interview and questionnaire gave the same data. The results include several things, namely : The process of using a smartphone, the benefit of using the smartphone and using of smartphone in evaluating students. There are four points obtained from the results of the questionnaire, namely : first, students' responses or reactions to writing skill material. The second is student responses to smartphone use. Third, student responses to inline group discussions and last, student reactions after studying online using the WhatsApp application. Based on the discussion above, it can be concluded that the reaction of students after learning English in learning materials for writing text based on the use of the smartphone itself using online discussions to improve writing skills has almost been implemented and received a positive response. Keywords: Smartphone usage,Online Group Dicussion, writing skill.

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