EXPLORING STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE PADLET APPLICATION AS A MEDIA TO LEARN NARRATIVE TEXT

The narrative text is an interesting type of text because it contains a lot of knowledge for writers or readers. Types of narrative text are divided into 4, they are fairy tales; folk tales; fables; and legends. Most students like stories that are accompanied by pictures and narrative texts used. So this research aims to introduce students to technology-based media as narrative text media. The learning process application supports narrative text to make it more accessible and more attractive to students by using the Padlet application. The researcher uses qualitative methods in this research. The data source for this research was grade 11 science 1 students at SMAN 1 Wringinanom with data collection techniques using interviews, observation, and documents. Data analysis techniques using thematic analysis. The results of this research indicate that students prefer to write narrative texts using the Padlet application rather than the conventional method. Because using the Padlet application can make time more efficient, easy, interesting, and fun. This is demonstrated through interviews, observations, and documents conducted by the researcher.