| dc.description.abstract | This research aimed to understand the EED of UMY students’ perception on the use of Edmodo toward their writing skills. The research question being investigated in this research is what the students’ perceptions on the use of Edmodo toward their writing skills. The perception covered the students’ perceptions toward the features that facilitate the writing skills, the significances and the challenges on the use of Edmodo toward the students’ writing skills. The qualitativeresearch design was served as the research methodology. It specifically used descriptive qualitative method. It used interview as the instrument. The researcher collected the data by conducting in-depth interview. The participants of the study were the EED of UMY students’ batch 2013. There were five (5) participants who were chosen by the researcher by using purposive sampling. In analyzing the data, the researcher used coding which consists of open coding, axial coding and selective coding.
Based on the interview, it showed that most of the participants had positive perceptions toward the use of Edmodo and its usage in writing skills. Firstly, the features of Edmodo that facilitated the students’ writing skills were the note feature,the assignment feature, the quiz feature,and the groupfeature. Secondly, there were some benefits of Edmodo on the learning process and writing skills. The benefits of Edmodo on the learning process are Edmodo engaged the students to use English in every activities; easy to use; interesting and fun; facilitated the students to share information and communicate with each other’s. | en_US |
