Abstract:
This research explores teaching media “Powtoon” to assist students’ writing
narrative text. This research aims to investigate strategies used by the teacher in
using media “Powtoon” to assist students’ writing narrative text and to know how
the students perceive about the use of media “Powtoon”. It was argued that the use
of media “Powtoon” would provide students with powerful tool to use in the
classroom. Bowman (2013) arguessthat “Powtoon offers teachers more creativity
and flexibility in students instruction to help introduce, develop, and reinforce key
education concept”. So, this strategy is appropriate for the teacher to invite students’
motivation and participation in learning English especially in assessing writing
skill. A qualitative descriptive research was used in this research, and this research
was conducted at the tenth grade of Vocational School in Karawang, and took an
English teacher who teaches writing class and 18 students as samples which were
chosen purposively as the sample of the study. The data were collected by using
classroom observation, and interview. The result from this study showed a positive
perception through strategies which were used by the teacher and help the students
in improving their self confidence in practicing writing. Beside that, the students’
spelling, grammar, content and vocabulary improved because the students feel free
in conveying and expressing their idea and some sentences in writing the script of
the story helped them in arranging the sentences to make a good sentences.
Therefore, the researcher analyzed the students’ interview. The data were displayed
in four questions.The dominant answer of the students’ interview indicates that they
enjoyed and motivated in following teacher’s instruction in every stages of learning
process. Based on these research findings, it is recommended that the teacher can
use media Powtoon in teaching writing narrative text to Vocational School students.
Furthermore, this strategy was not only increasing students’ writing skill, but also
increase students’ technology skill through the use of media Powtoon and
classroom interaction strategies. In addition, this study also suggests that English
teacher to use media Powtoon as the strategy to assists students’ writing. Moreover
for students, it can help them to improve their writing accuracy, and for further
researchers, it gives a broad opportunity to make the research more perfect in the
same field with different interest.
