THE EFFECT OF USING HOT POTATOES APPLICATION IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Abstract

Hot Potatoes application is one of educational software that contains exercises. The teacher can make the exercise by his own. It consists of JCloze, JQuiz, JCross, JMatch, JMix, and The Masher. Each of them has their own features. The researcher had two statements of the problem. First, he focused on how to create the teaching material using hot potatoes application. Second, he focused on how to apply the hot potatoes application in teaching descriptive text. Next, the subject of this research was the seventh grade students in one of private schools in Surabaya. The research design was descriptive qualitative. The research was conducted in three meetings. Every meeting, the students got different descriptive text