Improving Students’ Writing Skills in Procedure Text Through Project-Based Learning Using Canva
A Classroom Action Research at SMKN 3 Kediri
Abstract
Writing is one of the important language skills that students need to master in English learning, especially in vocational high schools. When the writer did observation during teaching practice program, she found that many students in SMKN 3 Kediri still had low motivation when the teacher assigned them to write a text. Moreover, they had problems in expressing ideas and sentence structure. This condition was caused by the teaching strategy applied by the teacher, which made the students passive and less interested in writing activities. Knowing the condition, the writer conducted Classroom Action Research (CAR) which aimed to: 1) describe the implementation of writing through Project-Based Leaning (PBL) using Canva, and to 2) improve students’ writing skills in procedure text. This CAR consisted of one cycle involving planning, acting, observing, and reflecting stages. The participants of this study were 34 tenth-grade students in the academic year 2025. The instruments used in this study were writing tests, observation sheets, and documentation. The implementation of teaching writing used PBL: planning, developing, and presenting. The observation results indicated that the students became more active, motivated, collaborative, and creative when they wrote using Canva application. The students’ mean writing score improved to 81.82 after the implementation of PBL assisted by Canva. It means that they achieved a good average score. Therefore, it was concluded that PBL using Canva can improve students’ writing skills in procedure text.
Keywords: Classroom Action Research, Canva, procedure text, Project-Based Learning, writing skills.
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