ENGLISH LEARNING USING INSTAGRAM (A STUDY AT SMK ISLAMIC CENTRE CIREBON)

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Instagram is one of mobile photo (and video) capturing and sharing service application. Instagram can be applied in class activity, especially in teaching writing. This application we can use this tool to make students interest in writing class, with feature of instagram photo share, social, community, and education on share humanity teacher can make students interested to write descriptive text. The objectives of this study are explaining: 1) the implementation of using caption on instagram in teaching writing, 2) what are the student perceptions of using caption on instagram in teaching writing. In this research writer uses qualitative descriptive and the sample of this research were XI MM (multimedia) class. The aims of this research is to investigate the student perceptions about the use of caption on instagram in teaching writing. In the end of the paper, the writer tries to analyze the data as the result from observation and questionnaire. After those steps, finally the writer finds in observation shown that the use of caption on instagram in teaching writing is ran well, students are enthusiastic in learning writing process and more confident to understanding writing material. Besides that, the result of questionnaire shown that the students is gave positive respond toward using caption on instagram in teaching writing in general their assumed instagram is helpful to understanding writing material and create situation of writing class be fun, interesting, and enjoyable.