USING A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS' WRTING ACHIEVMENTS

Writing is one of the most important and difficult language skills since it involves some language components. Writing activity will be available whenever it is supported with reading skill since writing and reading have a tight relationship. When learners are able to read, they must be able to write, too. Some difficulties to express their ideas are commonly found, it is happened since some learners are not facilitated with a good writing strategy or media to encourage them to write well. Using a digital media such a facebook account will encourage them to write well.

There are two reasons used facebook as his teaching media for his writing classroom activities; first, facebook is one of social networks which is used by many people around the world, so it is easy to be accessed. Second, facebook commonly is used to greet other people, express their feeling on happiness and sadness, share activities through photos, play a game and have a fun. It is a big challenge to change their paradigm in using facebook as one of learning media in technological era.

In doing his teaching activities, he follows some teaching procedures. They are (1) each student should have personal fb account with their own names which is registered in their attendance list. It is used since teaching and learning is a formal activities, so that they are invited to put their original names as it is registered in their attendance list, (2) the teacher creates a group for their learning subject, then he/she adds their students' name into the group for their learning membership, (3) the teacher makes a group for uploading varied pictures to facilitate their students in giving their responses for the subject that he/she taught in the classroom, (4) the students are directed to give a command through the given pictures appropriate with the subject taught in the classroom, the right command is given a "thumb" which is used as a symbol that their command is already accepted and right. When their sentence is wrong (grammar, spelling, punctuation, contents), so they have chances to revise their sentences into a good one, (5) each student has to choose one picture and give a command for the picture, it means that every students should have different pictures in giving their command. It is hopefully that they have many varied sentences with the same forms in sentence patterns.