STELLER AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT (A Case Study at SMAN 1 Pangandaran)

Abstract

This research is reported on the teacher uses steller as an instructional media in teaching writing narrative text. It also investigated the teacher’s perception towards steller application in teaching writing narrative text and the students’ perceptions toward steller application in writing narrative text. Steller is a free storytelling apps which lets the users to create story with combining text, images or video. In conducting this research the researchers used qualitative research in which case study was employed to collect the data from participants. The participants in this research were an English teacher and thirty six of tenth grade students at SMAN 1 Pangandaran. This research used triangulation data techniques such as observation, interview and questionnaire. The researcher analysed the observation data and the first result of interview by transcribed, categorized with relevant theories and explored it. The researcher analysed the second, the third, and the fourth results of interview by transcribed, analysed and related it with relevant theory. The researcher analysed the questionnaire data with percentage computation and categories. Moreover, there are three results in this research, the first result shows that there are several steps in teaching writing narrative text by using steller in the class. Those steps are writing the script of the story, choose engaging images, open the apps, importing images into steller, copy the script of the story, link steller to other network and share. The second result shows that the teacher gave positive perception towards steller apps in teaching writing narrative text, and also with the third result of students’ perceptions toward steller application in writing narrative text. In addition, the use of steller is interesting and motivating students in teaching and learning narrative text. It gave the students creating to write story with combining text, image or even video. Finally, the researchers are recommended the future researcher to conduct the research with similar topic but using another kind of instructional media.