The Use of Media and Technology to Enhance Teaching English Grammar Skills in Pandemic Era

Abstract

Grammar is one of the language skills needed to understand a learner's knowledge base useful for reading, writing and speaking English more effectively. Teaching grammar should also be more relaxed and easy for students to understand in order to get better achievements. This must be achieved by understanding that today's learning is focused on digital systems. As a result, technology plays a very important role in teaching English. Just as technology is used in English classrooms to make students more excited and inspired. This relates to existing educational phenomena or conditions that provide the basis for the application of new methods and techniques to carry out the active learning process. Educational gamification is one of the active learning methods. Certain games can illustrate the motivation of students' game involvement and increase enthusiasm for grammar learning games. according to previous research, one of the active gamification methods in grammar is using the Duolingo application. The purpose of this article is to introduce e-learning-based learning methods using the Duolingo application, especially during this pandemic, and provide the best alternative for teachers and students to develop students' English grammar to support technology-based teaching and learning processes.