The perceptions of students on the application of infographics as instructional media in promoting their writing abilities

Abstract

The aims to be reached in this article are describing the process of using infographic as the media to teach English writing as well as identifying the perceptions of students toward infographics as the media to teach English writing at the eleventh grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung. This research applied a qualitative descriptive method with two objectives of the research such as: 1) to describe the process of using infographic as the media to teach English writing at the eleventh grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung and (2) to identify the perceptions of students on the use of infographics as the media to teach English writing at the eleventh grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung. This research used four techniques to collect the data; observation, questionnaire, interview, and documentation. The implementation of this research involved one English teacher and 36 students of eleventh grade of IPA 1. The first findings revealed that the process of using infographic in teaching and learning writing which consisted of some processes; making lesson plan and infographics, presenting infographics, assigning the students by using infographic worksheets. The second finding, the students expressed positive responses of infographics; infographics were interesting, understandable, easy to use, and could motivate the students in learning writing. it can be concluded that the process of teaching English writing by using infographics run well. Then, on the use of infographic as the media in learning writing, the students have the positive responses to the infographics. The most students consider that infographic can foster their learning in English class. The students feel that the infographic is indeed effective because infographic do not take much time compared to other media like textbook, infographic do not spend much internet quota, and infographic could be used either in online class or offline class.