Increasing Students' Participation in Literacy Movement by Creating Instagram Caption
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26418/jefle.v1i2.43755Abstract
Due to students"™ low interest in reading, the government addresses this issue by involving a literacy movement program in national curriculum. However, many students if not all prefer being on their phone to read a book. Therefore, instead of making students go against the use of their phone, the researcher takes advantage of learning through their phone. In this case the researcher suggests a way to support the literacy movement and ask students to use their mobile phone as a useful media to study by creating Instagram captions. Students upload photos on daily basis using English caption to describe the photos or the feeling of the students. Caption should provide context for the photography, inspire the audience and show brand personality. The participants of this research were 30 students of the XII grade of science program in senior high school. For the literacy program they should posted their Instagram caption every day for a week. This descriptive study aims at supporting the literacy movement for the senior high school students in order to improve their English language skill such as vocabulary, grammar, writing and reading. The researcher found out that creating Instagram captions is useful to improve the language competence.
Keywords: Increasing Students' Participation, Literacy, Movement Creating, Instagram, Captions
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