FOSTERING STUDENTS’ AUTONOMY AND WRITING INTEREST VIA THE USE OF FACEBOOK GROUP (A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY AT AR-RANIRY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY)
Husnul Khatimah
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Banda Aceh
Prog. Magister pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
2016
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Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Husnul Khatimah. 2016. Fostering Students’ Writing Autonomy and Interest Via
the Use of Facebook Group. A Descriptive Study at English Education of
Ar-Raniry Islamic State University Banda Aceh. Thesis. Graduate Program
in English Language Education of Syiah Kuala University.
Advisors: (1) Dr. Sofyan A. Gani, M.A. (2) Dr. Zulfadli A. Aziz, S.Pd., M.A.
Key words: Autonomous Learning, Learners’ Interest, Facebook Group,
Descriptive Study.
This thesis attempts to deeply investigate wether the use of Facebook Group
fosters the learners’ autonomy and writing interest. The participants of this study
was ten second year students at English Department of Ar -Raniry Islamic State
University Banda Aceh. This qualitative study was conducted in a Facebook
Group named ‘We Are Popular Writer’ for 40 days. Besides saving the documents
from the Group, two types of interviews, pre-activities and post-activities, were
done in order to collect the primary data. The pre-activities interview was held
before the learning process in the Group was started, and the post -activities one
was set after the learning process was completed in the Group. It took 182
minutes duration of interview video from nine participants. The documents were
analyzed through descriptive analysis, the interview result s were analyzed through
thematic analysis. The findings reveal that the use of Facebook Group assissted
the participants to develop their learning autonomy as they were actively
participating in each stages suggested by Reinders (2010) . Besides, the researcher
also concluded two themes which accentuated this phenomenon. In addition, in
fostering the participants’ interest to learn writing, there are four ways provided
by the Facebook Group, as it provided unlimited timing, freedom and creativity,
interactive feedback, and provided varieties of ideas. Unfortunately, there were
three problems faced by the participants during the learning process by the use of
Facebook Group: technical problems, the personal problems, and the distraction
from the learners’ activities outside the Facebook Group.
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