An analysis Powtoon as media for teaching english writing for Junior High School Students

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Afkar, Devita Wafirotul (2019) An analysis Powtoon as media for teaching english writing for Junior High School Students. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

The rapid development of technology encourages the teachers to also use technology as an instrument in their teaching practices. They may believe that the use of technology can help transform their ideas meaningfully or to facilitate the teaching learning process. One of the technological tools that the teacher can use in English classroom is Powtoon. Powtoon is an online application with cartoon animation features a vibrant transition effect. This current study investigated the use Powtoon media as a tool to teach English writing for Junior High School students in Indonesia. The study used qualitative descriptive method by analyzing 6 Powtoon videos. The content of video were analyzed based on the basic competence describe in the Curriculum 13. The findings showed that six videos used to teach English writing to Junior High School for the following reasons. First, they met the purpose of learning English writing in Curriculum 13 particularly for basic competence 3.2 which focused the materials about elements of language vocabulary related to family relations (pronoun; subjective, objective, possessive). Basic competence 4.7.2 focused on written descriptive text, very short and simple related to people. Basic competence 4.4 focus on asking permission and responding to activity in the school. Basic competence 4.12 which contains short text message about announcement. Basic competence 3.2 about agreement to carry out an action/activity. The last is basic competence 4.9.2 focus on report text. The second met the criteria of good media in terms of their content, includes text, images, back sound or audio recording. The findings indicate that six Powtoon videos used suitable for teaching English writing to Junior High School.