Students’ Lived Experience of Using Seesaw Class Application in English I Class

Paskalina Widiastuti Ratnaningsih

doi:10.20961/seeds.v2i2.27550

Students’ Lived Experience of Using Seesaw Class Application in English I Class

Paskalina Widiastuti Ratnaningsih

Abstract

This paper aims at discovering students’ lived experience in using Seesaw Class application in English I Class. Seesaw Class is an application for teaching-learning in the smartphone. Applications are used as the media for learning in the present era. Seesaw Class application is used to enhance English skills and components during teaching-learning activities. Various features in Seesaw Class application provide more space for students to express their ideas. The method used is a hermeneutic- phenomenology method. It focuses on the description and interpretation of lived experience. The data were gathered with in- depth interview, observation, and document review. The research was validated with triangulation. The research results are divided into empirical themes and transcendent themes. Meaning in each theme is revealed with deep understanding of the research and has the implication in the practice area. The concept discovered in this study is explained in a Venn diagram and has the implication in the theory area.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/seeds.v2i2.27550