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STUDENTSAo PERCEPTIONS AND THEIR BARRIERS IN THE PROCESS OF UTILIZING IT IN WRITING CLASS Siti Maria Ulfa1.
Susanto2.
Oikurema Purwati3 English Language and Literature Department.
STKIP PGRI Bangkalan Universitas Negeri Surabaya sitimariaulfa@stkippgri-bkl.
Received: February 16, 2020
Revised: April 25, 2020
Accepted: May 12, 2020
ABSTRACT
This research was done to investigate the studentsAo perceptions and barriers in using Edmodo in their writing class.
Besides, the barriers can be also the main points within the implementation of their writing class process.
Edmodo is a free and secure learning platform that can be used in all lesson especially in university.
It provides a very simple ways and simply make good pathway for teachers and students to communicate for a particular lesson especially for writing because the constructive comments were already stated within the platform.
Since the focuses are perceptions of the students, a qualitative method was used through the use of documentation and interview were utilized to gather The findings showed that they strongly agreed that Edmodo very helpful in writing class, they can directly obtain the feedback, save their data safely and they can read it after a while and the rest perceptions will be explained more clearly.
Keywords: StudentsAo perceptions.
StudentsAo barriers.
Edmodo.
Writing INTRODUCTION Nowadays, teaching and learning process is quite different from past.
In the past, students and lecturer simply do the thing through face to face, reading literatures, jotting down notes on papers which is stated by Al-Kathiri .
It can be said that teaching and learning process impossibly cannot be done effectively because they need more than just those things.
On the other hand, today, technology is the counter and be the major role in the education field especially with the emergency situation recently.
Lecturers and students may not be ready yet with the rapid changing but it is urgently required to shift to the conventional way through the use of technology itself.
Since they offer functions that can be used easily by educators in finding what they need for their classroom process Haygood.
Garner, & Johnson .
and Edmodo is one of the examples of it.
Within the Edmodo itself, students and lecturer may work collaboratively and cooperatively to promote better learning process especially in writing class.
also can promote to their psychological health which is stated by Holland and Muilenburg .
It is important to look at further what makes traditional learning Volume 9 .
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php/exposure Exposure Journal 97 Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris environment is quite different from the online one and desire the studentsAo readiness to face and utilize it.
Al-Said .
stated that online learning allows students to learn everywhere within unlimited time they want and it refers to the flexibility to use the mobile tools to support the learning for themselves.
Furthermore, the accessibility was also the main point to take in.
To sum up, with the rapid development of ICT recently, it is crucial to integrate teaching and learning process for teachers.
Video, internet, web and Edmodo are four out of a number of platforms that have been proven to be effective in fostering the studentsAo performance, to be more specific in writing as stated in previous studies mentioned earlier.
On the other hand, what becomes a problem may arouse as the teaching and learning of writing is running in the classroom.
The teacher tends to focus only on the product of the studentsAo writing without giving any pressure or intention of their process in producing such a good composition in As long as the students submit the task on time, the teacher will not give any such constructive comments for their writing.
Once the teacher gives some constructive comments, it is not always being something benefits for the students since they do not know how to rearrange the writing itself.
It is urgently required to look up again what is happening around the writing class that is crucial to look closer how is actually writing class should be done well to meet the expectation.
Furthermore, there have been lots of research studies focusing on writing that have been integrated with the technology.
Suparmi .
for instance, integrated subtitled and unsubtitles video to teach the students to write a procedure Her study revealed that the students Aoperformance in writing a procedure essay was better after they were exposed to subtitled and subtitled video.
Similarly.
Cahyono and Rahayu .
also used video to empower the studentsAo ability in writing process analysis essay.
This video-based task, based on the research finding, could improve the studentsAo performance as shown by their higher score in writing.
Another study was also conducted by Kusumaningrum .
who considered video as the media to assist the students to construct an argumentative essay.
The finding of the study also suggested that the studentsAo performance in writing will be better and the situation of the process of teaching and learning will be more comfortable for them.
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php/exposure Exposure Journal 98 Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Although there are a lot of studies which are related to using technology, but the study on the perceptions and barriers towards it was quite few.
Finally, what makes this study important is the determination whether the students expose themselves to positive perceptions or not especially in writing class.
Knowing also their barriers also help the lecturer and also the field of learning by using technology to be solved and in long run the Edmodo itself will meet their truly needs when they use the application.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Online learning short overview In the recently time, people use mobile devices like mobile phones, laptop, or netbooks was not something new but rather it is very essentials in daily lives.
the fact exists, the use of mobile devices increased so fast.
Edmodo provides a ground for training safely through the internet.
They can practice and communicate with peers and lecturers privately and secured.
It is similar to Facebook since students often use Facebook for their social media.
Edmodo seems quite familiar also for them.
Besides its recreational function, lecturer can directly give comments to their works that nobody can see it and they start to think critically towards the things that they need to fix.
The site allows lecturer to create and manage the online class easily.
It is a simple way for lecturer and students to send quizzes, assignment, give score and keep safe all the documents like what Kongchan .
Furthermore, through the use of Edmodo, students not only obtain the experience to do the task within network but it is more than they experience life skill contemporary technology-saturated lifestyle.
Unconsciously, through the use of Edmodo in writing class, has changed the way they work, communicate, collaborate, socialize and learn with a network society.
In social media like in Edmodo, such a collaboration may happen between teacher and students.
It provides so many integrated information including tasks, projects, tests, evaluation or other activities.
Yet its unlimited time that people can use Edmodo anytime they want yet it is also most possible accessible mobile platform for the students.
It mostly possible to come up with face to face experience of interaction.
The use and development of educational technology, information and communication have created a learning process that can be conducted online.
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php/exposure Exposure Journal 99 Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris is the use of online media.
Learning media based on Edmodo are learning environments through the use sophisticated technology that are safe and comfy for both teachers and students.
The aim of Edmodo and related to services is to combine the results from many sources into a single entity and equip them with a communication and evaluation background.
Steps in using Edmodo At the previous semester, identifying learning outcome of the course and the content and also the number of the students was done.
Before conducting the research, the lecturer firstly made an account and registered in w.
by using email address.
After that, he signed into the account and create the class and give name to it and gave the code to the students to join the group.
The next step was starting to teach writing.
Here, the lecturer combined the conventional teaching and learning through the use of Edmodo and also giving explanation theoretically within the meetings in a classroom.
METHOD
Since this study has aims to know the studentsAo perceptions and their barriers in using Edmodo in their writing class, a qualitative method was used here.
The subjects in this study were about 33 students of STKIP PGRI Bangkalan in semester 4 who have writing lesson.
The lecturer has already made the account and every student has already joint the account by inserting the code given by the Neither the lecturer not the students had ever used and known Edmodo before this study.
The instruments were used here such as interview and The lecturer delivered and noted some questions to be given to the student in order to know their perception and barriers within an open ended questions to gain more information.
The data from the students were analyzed descriptively based on the reasons and opinions and finally come to the conclusion.
DISCUSSION