STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN TEACHING WRITING

Abstract

This paper reports a research of students’ perception on the implementation of digital storytelling in teaching writing to second semester students of STKIP Siliwangi Bandung. The research aims to find out the benefits and challenges of using digital storytelling. This research comes up due to answering digitalization era. Wherein, students should be accommodated by technology in teaching learning process. The research was conducted at STKIP Siliwangi Bandung. The subject of this research was writing for general communication students. The data were obtained from students’ interview. The findings revealed that there are some benefits. They are the development of students’ writing ability, the improvement of students’ reading comprehension, the development of students’ cooperation skill, the increasing of students’ participation in the class, fun learning’s atmosphere and the increasing of students’ writing interest. The challenges had something to do with students’ proficiency. Based on those findings, it is suggested to obtain deep data of the research and to modify new teaching practice.