The Use of Quizizz to Increase Students' Ability in Writing Descriptive Text
(1) Universitas PGRI Semarang
(2) Universitas PGRI Semarang
(3) Universitas PGRI Semarang
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The objective of this research was to investigate how extend YouTube and Quizizz could increase students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The method used in this research was quantitative. The students underwent pretest before the treatment and post-test after the treatment. The objective of writing descriptive text is to describe someone, a place, or something. Writing is one of a language’s skills that needs composing, which means to convey some information narratively, descriptively, expositorily, or argumentatively. Writing itself is a complex combination of cognitive and metacognitive activities such as brainstorming, planning, outlining, organizing, drafting and revising. Descriptive text is formed by identification and description. By doing descriptive writing the students will have the ability to depict the sensory attribute of an object. There are four components in descriptive text language feature: participant, adjective, present tense, and action verb. Therefore, teaching media is needed to increase students’ writing descriptive text ability. In 2025 there were 143 million users of YouTube. YouTube is accessed because of its exciting and educative purpose fit the need of Junior High School students. Social media platforms especially YouTube and Instagram give positive impact for ESL students’ vocabulary and motivation. It is stated that Quizizz has positive influence upon English teaching and learning. Quizizz can improve grammar understanding significantly. Quizizz also can enhance students’ grammar understanding also. Quizizz increased students’ learning English motivation. Students enjoyed Quizizz because it enhanced their involvement and encouragement along classroom activities. This research showed that there was a positive relationship between Quizizz and ability of writing descriptive text.
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