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READING LOG

NAMA : AYU WULANDARI

CLASS : TBI 4A

NIM : 2130104012

No. 1

Title USING “STORYBIRD” FOR TEACHING NARRATIVE WRITING


Author Rini Anita
Program Studi Tadris Bahasa Inggris, Jurusan Tarbiyah STAIN Batusangkar

Source Proceedings of the Fourth International Seminar onEnglish Language and Teaching
(ISELT-4)

Content a. Abstract lecturers may not just neglect the impact of new
technologies and fail to incorporate them in their
teaching practice. One big evolution in classroom
technology has been in the development of using
webtools for teaching writing. Storybird; a website 2.0
tool, is an excellent new media for teaching narrative
writing. It will not only highly motivate the students to
write in English and other languages but also it gives
an opportunity for the students to control their learning
experiences by means of technology device. Beside
Storybird can be easily accessed by the students using
their netbook, smartphones, or other devices. Thus, this
paper deals with the use of Storybird in teaching
narrative writing.
b. Introduction As a result, most students encountered some writing
blocks like they have lack of ideas or cannot think any
interesting and significant enough ideas to write, are
confuse in grammar, choose inappropriate vocabulary,
are awkward in using punctuation, or even have the
voice of mother tongue on their writing. Beside, they
may think writing is a time-consuming activity, or even
such a boring activity to do so, as a result, they tend to
choose “tricky ways” such as doing cheating or
plagiarism.

c. Method Generally, ICTs or Information and Communication


Technologies mean to all technology used to handle
telecommunication, broadcast media, intelligent
building systems, audiovisual processing and
transmission systems, and network-based control and
monitoring functions (Techopeedia).
d. Related theories - it is strongly supported by Zemach and
Rumisek (2005) who say writing is a very
important part of univeristy study.
- writing also becomes a difficult skill to
comprehend (Guoyan, 2007: 18).
e. Findings/results - STORYBIRD: WHY SHOULD LECTURER
UTILIZE IT?
Generally, Storybird is defined as a visual story
telling community. It is a global hub of readers,
writers, and artists of all ages globally. The idea
of creating Storybird itself is to let anyone make
gorgeous, art inspired stories in seconds.
Storybird has three types of account such as
regular user (any users), school/edu user
(students and educator), and professional user
(artist and writer)
- HOW DOES STORYBIRD WORK?
1. Registering
2. Logging in
3. Giving an assignment
4. Creating Storybird (for lecturers or students)
5. Inviting collaborator (for students)
6. Publishing Storybird
- NARRATIVE WRITING
narrative writing is as one of the most essential
writing skill that English language major
students have to command (Adam, 2015: 1). It
presents many fruitful benefits of developing
narrative writing. First, it helps students
develop imaginative thinking and participles in
literacy understanding as a whole. Second, it is
extremely important in the field of education,
culture, and in our lives as stated by
psychologist Jerome Bruner (2007). Hence,
narrative writing is very significant in our lives,
help students develop imaginatively and
develop bridging the cultural gaps.

f. Conclusion bout writing stories. In fact, students are naturally


inclined to write stories of their interests more
than other types of writing. However, they are still less
motivated to write since lecturers do not use
effective media to teach narrative writing. Storybird
comes as a bright idea to alleviate this problem.
Storybird has a more powerful, active, and autonomous
role impact on students’ confident when
using English.
g. Reference Rini Anita (2016)

Citatio - Adam, Ahmed Abdalla Saeed. 2015. Developing


n EFL Learners’ Narrative Writing through Using
Short Stories: The Case of Al-Baha University
Students. European Journal of English Language
and Literature Studies. Vol. 3, No. 4 pp, 1-8,
September 2015.
- Baldick, C. 2008. Oxford dictionary of Literary
terms. Oxford University Press
- Gakhar, S and Thompson, A. 2007. Digital
Storytelling: Engaging, Communicating, and
- Collaborating. Society for Information
Technology & Lecturer Education International
Conference. AACE

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