THE USE OF INSTAGRAM IN MEDIATING STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

Abstract

The objective of this study was to know how Instagram mediates students’ writing recount text, and to find the impacts of Instagram on the students’ writing recount text. The participants of this research was taken in one of Senior High School in Bogor 10th grades have 25 students. The method use in this study was Classroom Action Research (CAR), conducted in two cycles. There were 3 kinds of data collected, those were observations, tests, and interviews. The result of the study showed that the mean score of the students’ writing recount text gained on test 1 was 63,56 (9 out of 25 students passed the KKM). In the second test the mean score of the students’ writing recount text was 76,92 (22 out of 25 students passed the KKM). It can be conclude that Instagram was able to mediate students’ writing recount text and it gave impacts to the students on their writing recount text.