Key words: Instagram, Writing, Descriptive Text
Improving student’s writing achievement is very important for writing that is
considered as one of the most difficult language skill. Since English is used as a
foreign language, some of students have difficulties in generating ideas,
organizing sentence structures, choosing appropriate vocabulary, and using
effective styles. Besides, some of them always use their mobile phone in the class
when teaching learning process. This situation leads teacher to be more creative in
teaching writing English. Referring to those problems, teaching aids are needed in
teaching and learning process in order to make learning more fun and interesting.
Here, the using Instagram is effective tool in helping students to get idea in
writing. Instagram seems to be appropriate media for a genre such as Descriptive
text. Based on the interview with the teacher, it is assumed that the students of ten
grades in SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Tulangan have writing difficulties and are not
motivated to learn English writing. The objective of the present research is to
know the implementation and the students’ responses to the use of Instagram in
writing descriptive text in students of ten grades in SMAN Muhammadiyah 3
Tulangan. This study uses a qualitative analysis that emphasize on methods of
collecting, analyzing data, and describing the results of the analysis. To conduct
this research, the researcher does a field-note when the teacher implementing
Instagram media in the class to observe students’ response. The researcher also
uses the questionnaire for each meeting in the class. Based on the result, it can be
concluded that using Instagram can be a media in writing descriptive text to the
ten grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Tulangan in academic year
2017/2018.