Using Instagram to motivate students' Writing Descriptive Text at Second Grade in SMAN 1 Gresik Academic Year 2016-2017

Improving student’s writing achievement is very important for writing that is considered as one of the most difficult language skill. Since English is used as a foreign language, some of students have difficulties in generating ideas, organizing sentence structures, choosing appropriate vocabulary, and using effective styles. Besides, some of them always use their mobile phone in the class when teaching learning process. This situation leads teacher to be more creative in teaching writing English. Referring to those problems, teaching aids are needed in teaching and learning process in order to make learning more fun and interesting. Here, the using Instagram is effective tool in helping students to get idea in writing. Instagram seems to be appropriate media for a genre such as Descriptive text. Based on the interview with the teacher, it is assumed that the students of ten grades in SMAN 1 Gresik have writing difficulties and are not motivated to learn English writing. The objective of the present research is to explore and describe the use of Instagram to motivate students in writing descriptive text in students of ten grades in SMAN 1 Gresik. This study is qualitative using descriptive approach. Then, this study uses a qualitative analysis that emphasize on methods of collecting, analyzing data, and describing the results of the analysis. To conduct this research, the researcher does a library research before implementing Instagram mediated teaching in the class to observe students’ response. The researcher also uses the lesson plan for each meeting in the class. As supporting data, the researcher uses interview guide to take the data. Based on the result of interview, it can be concluded that using Instagram can motivate students in writing descriptive text to the ten grade students of SMAN 1 Gresik in academic year 2016/2017.