THE USE OF E-PARAGRAPH APPLICATION IN PARAGRAPH WRITING CLASS AT SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF UNIVERSITAS PGRI SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
Keywords:
Writing skill, Application, Android appAbstract
This study aims to find out how E-Paragraph application able to improve students’ ability in paragraph writing class.
This final project aims to analyze the use of the Researcher’s creation E-Paragraph The objectives of this study are; (1) To find out the implementation of E-Paragraph application in teaching paragraph writing. (2) To find out the students’ perception the using E-Paragraph Application. (3) To find out students’ writing paragraph development in the using E-Paragraph Application. The research design used in this research is descriptive qualitative research method because this method provides flexibility for researchers to interpret and analyze descriptively the subjective elements such as students’ perception, obstacles, or feedback. The results of this study revealed that E- Paragraph able to help the students understanding about paragraph writing especially in expository text. Data is taken from the questionnaire and the documentation. From the questionnaire, researcher able to conclude it into pie chart that the students are able to keep up and having good understanding, interest in using E-Paragraph. The results of this study indicate that the application is able to assist the students to accomplish their paragraph writing. Through the E-Paragraph application, students can generate and organize their ideas and generate text as well. One good suggestion for lecturer to apply technology based media as an alternative way to improve students' writing skill
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