%0 Book Section
%A Fidian, Athia
%B PROCEEDING: The 4th Summit Meeting International Conference on Education.
%C Yogyakarta
%D 2017
%F digilib:30848
%I PGMI PRESS UIN SUKA
%K learning media, Instagram, improvement of writing skill
%N -
%P 87-94
%S Prosiding
%T THE IMPROVEMENT OF NURSING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS  AT FIKES UMMGL THROUGH THE USE OF INSTAGRAM
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/30848/
%V -
%X The nurses’ opportunities for working abroad increasingly open, was not directly  proportional to the opportunity of nurse graduates to get a job abroad with easily.  The quality of human resources is still low, one of which is the mastery of English as  an international language to be one cause. Therefore, education as the main gateway  to change and improve the students’ skill need to be improved its quality. The success  of education is strongly influenced by the success of learning in the classroom. The  role of educators in designing learning including the use of appropriate learning  media is certainly necessary, in order to get the maximum results. The use of social  media instagram as a learning medium is expected to bridge the learning process in  the classroom. The subject of the research is the 3rd semester of D3 Nursing students  at FIKES University of Muhammadiyah Magelan. The experimental method was  chosen to determine the influence of social usage of instagram media as a learning  media in improving writing skill. The data collection technique was using pretest  and posttest, supported by questionnaires. The results of this study indicated that;  The average value of the experimental class in the pretest result was 67.93 and  the posttest was 80.71, the result of the hypothesis test, was obtained Asymp.Sig.  (2-tailed) is worth 0.000. The value was <0.05, it can be concluded that Ha was  accepted. So the conclusion is the use of social media Instagram can improve the  students writing skills.  Keywords: learning media, Instagram, improvement of writing skill