Stimulating Efl (English As Foreign Language)Students’ Writing Skill By Using Social Media

Abstract

This study was concerned to stimulate EFL (English As foreign language) students’ ability for writingEnglish especially descriptive sentences in social media. The growth of Social Media with various platforms like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube and many others have interested the youngers or teenagers to take part in those platforms. The youngers, teenagers, students love posting pictures, photos, sharing information even learning and studying some lessons can be done  from the social media like Ruang Guru, English Today Medan, gurukumrd and many others account which share knowledge in fun way. Students love posting good pictures with simple caption in Bahasa Indonesia sometimes commonly used by Indonesian students. As we know that social media one of the fastest way to learn something. Nowadays, people can get benefit information until education from the media like Facebook, Insatgram, Twitter and many others. Those social media can stimulate the students to learn English because the information comes from around the world. People can do communication faster by the scoial media nad mostly the international language used in social media is English. Social media trend and lifestyle among the teenagers should be a good opportunity for the English trainers to stimulate EFL students to learn Englis, especially for writing descriptive sentence. Descriptive sentence is commonly used to describe a post, interesting picture, photo to be more  and understoodable by the readers, not only in Indonesia but also the readers from around the world. Good English caption will ease the people around the world to comprehend the meaning of caption. The method of writing English descriptive sentences can be trained by teaching it in the level of secondary schools where the teenagers are the most active social media audiences based on the research in 2018 especially the instagram users are 53 million with the percentage of 49 percent female users, 51 percent male users. Based on the research, rather than wasting time to use social media with no purpose, educating the social media users especially the teenagers are needed to be taken, the role of English teachers to stimulate the students about writing English descriptive sentences will accomodate the ability of Indonesian students to enhance English writing skill through social media.

Keywords: Stimulating EFL Students, writing skill, social media