To Ict or Not to Ict: Developing Writing Skills in an Efl Professional Training Course

Beaufils, Alain; Duarte, Jane

doi:10.21125/edulearn.2018.1444

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“…The implementation of Canva in teaching writing is supported by several previous studies that had done similar research about using Canva to teach writing and as proven by Beaufils & Duarte (2018), who found improvement in students' writing ability using Canva as visual media in an experimental group that shows Canva reliability as teaching media as it stimulates students' development in their ideas. The use of Canva as visual media is approved by another study by Suhartono and Larasati (2016), which within their research stated that most of the students give good response and furthermore concluded that based on the students' enthusiasm improves their writing ability because the students were more eager to listen to the lesson hence understanding the material more.For further proof of using Canva in teaching writing is provided by Anwar et al (2023), which implemented Canva in teaching descriptive text and within their conclusion obtained increased learning outcomes.…”

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The Effect of Using Canva Media on Descriptive Text Writing Ability of Seventh Grade Students

Ramdhana,

Syarfi,

Jismulatif

2024

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This research was aimed to discover whether there is any effect of using Canva as teaching media on descriptive text writing ability of SMP YLPI seventh grade students. The researcher conducted an interview to observe how writing was taught in the school, what were the difficulties students and teachers were facing and how familiar are they with the use of media in teaching. From this interview, researcher noticed that the students have difficulties developing ideas and challenged when learning writing. Experimental research was used in this study. This research is classified as a quasi-experiment, where in conducting this research, the writer involved one group pre-test and post-test design without the use of control group. Sampling technique used in this research was non-probability sampling with purposive sampling technique which took 20 students of class VII¹ as the sample of this research from the entire population of 37 first year students. The data were collected through a written test which were performed during the pre-test and post-test stage where it showed improvement in students’ five indicators which are content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanical before and after treatment was given. The results showed that the mean score of one group experimental class in pre-test was 60,5 and was 66 in post-test. the improvement of mean score from pre-test to post-test was 5,5. This indicates that Canva improves the students’ writing ability. These findings suggest that Canva can be used as a reliable teaching media to teach writing and improves students learning outcomes.

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confidence: 53%