Teaching Writing to Build Students’ Character by Using Google Docs *

Maria Cholifah
Kanjuruhan University of Malang, East Java
mariacholifah@yahoo.com

The government of the Republic of Indonesia is now launching a form of education which is based on character known as “character education”. In the context of character education in schools, it is expected that all the courses taught in all levels and in all kinds of education are directly to the building of good character. To relate with teaching English, writing is one of the subject that has promising potential to help the students to build their character. On the other hand, technology especially internet has been familiar with the students. Via internet we can exchange our idea online, even with people half a world away from us. Google docs is one of the alternative tool that can be used in teaching writing. Google docs is a free online program that allows users to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online and share them with others for collaboration. By using Google docs the teacher can improve the students writing skill and also build their character.

Keywords : character building, writing, google docs


Biodata

Maria Cholifah has been a permanent lecturer at Kanjuruhan University, English Literature Department since 2003. She is also a Mandarin lecturer at State University of Malang and STIBA Malang. She completed her undergraduate study at English Literature at STIBA Malang in 2001 and earned her M.Pd in English Language Education Islamic University of Malang in 2008.

*this abstract is accepted on The 4th National English Language Teachers and Lecturers (NELTAL) Conference, and going to be presented on 31 March 2012
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