An Investigation of Canva's Impact on Narrative Text Writing Skill

Writing skills are a difficult challenge for many EFL students who lack exposure to real language outside the classroom. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the effect of using Canva in teaching narrative text writing of SMP LTI Indo Global Mandiri Palembang students and their perceptions of using Canva. The research design was a quasi-experimental design. The samples of this study were classes VIII.A and VIII.B consisting of 20 students of class VIII.A and 19 students of class VIII.B. The research design used in this study was quasi-experimental design. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, which involves selecting specific individuals who are believed to be representative of the population being studied. The data were collected by giving pre-test and post-test, and analyzed by using t-test (paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test) with the help of SPSS v.23 program. The results of this study show that the p-value of the paired sample t-test is 0.000 which is less than 0.05, which means there was a significant increase in the improvement of students' writing skills after being taught using Canva application. The p-value of the independent sample t-test is 0.000 which was less than 0.05, which means that there was a significant mean difference between the experimental group and the control group, and the experimental group students showed positive responses and perceptions towards teaching writing using Canva application. Therefore, the results of this study indicate that the use of Canva application learning media can improve students' writing ability in narrative text in the eighth grade of SMP LTI Indo Global Mandiri Palembang.