The Use of Instagram in Teaching Descriptive Text

The aim of this study was to examine the students’ improvement in English writing skill and their perspectives of using Instagram in doing their descriptive text writing assignments on Instagram. This research employed a quantitative approach. The participants were 15 students from different high schools in Banda Aceh. The research data was gathered by test and questionnaire. In collecting data, test (pre-test & post-test) was used as instrument to answer the first research question; what percentage Instagram impacts students’ English writing ability and questionnaire was used as instrument to answer the second research question; how do students perceive their use of descriptive writing on Instagram. The finding of this research showed that the mean of the student’s post-test score is higher than the mean of the student’s pre- test score. Additionally, student’s responses to the questionnaire in this study indicate that there were more students like using Instagram as a media. Then, it was found in the study that student’s writing skill improved after using Instagram as a media.