THE USE OF DUOLINGO APPLICATION ON TEACHING WRITING SKILL AT FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MAS UDAH, UUD (2024) THE USE OF DUOLINGO APPLICATION ON TEACHING WRITING SKILL AT FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. STKIP PGRI BANGKALAN.

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Abstract

Nowadays technology has developed rapidly presenting various interesting features, one of the trending technologies is social media. To advance learning in the digital era, social media is very important in today's life, Duolingo is one of the applications that can help improve students' writing skills, especially in mastering vocabulary. In this case, the researcher used a qualitative descriptive method. This research was conducted at Banyuajuh 9 Elementary School, data collection using observation, interviews and documentation. The results of interviews with three fifth grade students became the source of data for this study. This study aims to find out the implementation of Duolingo application in teaching writing skills and to find out students' responses to the use of Duolingo application in learning writing skills at Banyuajuh 9 Elementary School. The Duolingo application as a learning media is a very effective media because it has many benefits for students such as students easily understand and understand related subject assignments, offers interesting features that encourage students' enthusiasm for learning, this makes learning interactive, the duration of use is quite short so that students are not easily bored, and the Duolingo application provides questions composing several words into a complete and correct sentence by answering these questions can improve students' writing skills. The conclusion in this study is that the use of the Duolingo application is very helpful for teachers in teaching and learning activities and it is also found that the use of the Duolingo application develops students' writing skills, especially in mastering students' English vocabulary for the better.

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