Journal of Contemporary Issues in Primary Education (JCIPE)
Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2024, page: 59-67
E-ISSN: 3026-4014
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1. Introduction
English is an international language. It has become the language of communication in the
international so that there is almost no country where it is not studied as a language of communication for
students or business people. Learning English as a foreign language still becomes a burden for most students
in Indonesia. According to Novari et al. (2018:151-156) Language has a very important role in human life.
Humans have used language as a means of communication for centuries. Language exists in line with the
social history of a society or nation. Even though these natural 'words' are not changed in the dictionary,
people really like to use them so that they become the initial words that are attached and assumed and the
modified words have the same meaning. Language vocabulary has developed irregularly in recent years
and tends not to be formulated.
The authors found several problems, face by students in writing there are: The first, the students
lacked of motivation, To learn writing because students felt as a boring lesson. The second problem,
students had difficulted expressing their ideas. The third problem, students had difficulted in writing explain
texts they were did not understood the various types of text and writing processes. The fourth problem, the
lacked of students' vocabulary. The next problem, students had difficulted compiling grammar which made
students difficulted for students to assembling each word into a sentence. The last problem, limited media
used by teacher. There were several texts in writing to be mastery of student at Tenth Grade of Senior High
School consisting of descriptive text, announcement text, and recount text. Based on several texts studied
in the tenth grade of Senior High School, the authors takes narrative text as the learning material in this
study.
To solution to these problems are that teachers shall know more about media in English learning,
there are lots of media that teachers has used to help in the learning process in the classroom, because by
using a variety of media teachers and students easily and increase their motivation during the teaching and
learning process in the classroom. To help students improve their writing skill, researcher provides a Padlet
Application as a learning media in the classroom.
Padlet
Padlet is a free online tool that is best described as an online notice board. Padlet can be used by
students can contain links, videos images and document files. When you registered with Padlet, you can
create as many “walls” or online notice boards as you like. These walls can set to private or public, with
each wall having separate privacy settings. According to Fiester & Green (2016:243), “Padlet allows for
students to be actively engaged in a lesson when they or can otherwise be distracted. Padlet can also serve
as a bulletin board where students can post their thoughts, ideas, questions, and answers.”
a. The Features of Padlet Application
According to Kurien (2021) Padlet is a creative tool used to enhance interactivity in teaching and
learning process. You have used this digital bulletin board to display anything with a variety of facilities
available on the “wall”. Padlet walls could be made for public purposes such as classroom learning or
personal enjoyment. Padlet Application is the best tool to collaborate and express someone’s thoughts and
also could read others’ statements. Each individual could provide statements, comments, and questions in
one place that was easily accessible to everyone to get feedback.
b. The Use of Padlet in Learning Writing
Padlet or could be referred to as an online whiteboard is very useful for used in distance learning.
Using Padlet as a distance learning medium does not limited communication between students and their
teachers. Like a blackboard in the classroom, this online wall could also accommodate subject matter in the
form of files, students’ assignments, voice notes, writing, pictures, messages, and facilitate communication,
either thought comments, voice, messages and etc.
According to Awaludin et.al in Rony (2021:29-30) explained that. The used of Padlet in the
classroom start from the teacher is explaining the features in Padlet such as how to create a post or comment
to others’ post. The teacher then shared the topic or material in Padlet, and asked the students to read the
posts. Once the students already read the post in the Padlet, the teacher asked them to tell their experienced
or opinion in the class Padlet’s wall. In their postings, the students can also insert some links, images,
videos, or files which support and make their posting or comment become more interesting. With this, first,
the students would be able to write variety of text genres either it is in from of personal or academic term.
Second, the students can discus things related to the writing itself such as the points they still not understand.
Third, it can provide a good learning environment for the students’ collaboration in writing classroom.