Susanto, Mohamad Jazeri, Nur Hidayat, Yudhi Arifani
Currently, the development of information technology contributes a great deal to the English language teaching and learning process and, consequently, it has propelled teachers to adopt new pedagogical approaches, strategies, tools, materials, and equipment and integrate them with technology in teaching practices. The recent technologically language instructional tool is Interactive Whiteboard (IWB). The effect of IWB on teaching and learning of English as first, second, and as a foreign language have been widely investigated by several researchers. However, in Indonesian context, studies exploring the impacts of the IWB on EFL learner in public school have been rarely conducted. This is because all Indonesian schools have to adopt an established curriculum designed by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in 2013 in which part of this curriculum comprises Information Technology (IT). Applying an experimental study, this study aimed at examining the effect of the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in pre-writing activities on the EFL students' development of ideas and the use of topic-related vocabulary words in the writings The participants of this study was the students of EFL learners (Frontrunner) consisted of ten (10) Frontrunner classes. Clustered Random Sampling was used to select the sample. They were two classes to be chosen as the sample of the study. As such this study studied the progress of one control groups (n=23) as a classical class taught by using non IWB and one experimental one (n=25) taught by using IWB. The findings of quantitative data analysis indicated that IWB was effective in enhancing students' development of ideas and proper use of vocabulary words in essay writing. © 2020 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Graduate Program, English Department, Iain, Tulungagung, Indonesia; State University of Surabaya and Stkip Bina Insan Mandiri, Indonesia; English Language Education Department, Universitas Muhamadiyah, Gresik, Indonesia
