Students’ Views On Canva and How Canva Affects Their Writing Achievement

Abstract

One of the skills that this study concerned is writing skill. Many studies prove that technology could help students to enhance their writing skills. Canva is primarily used for visual content creation, but it also has been explored as a tool for language teaching. Several studies confirmed that Canva has an important role in making the students enhance their writing skills. The study aims at the analyze the correlation between the students’ perception of using Canva and their writing achievement. The research design used in the present study is quantitative correlation research design. This study was conducted at SMKN 2 Buduran in Sidoarjo, East Java. The researchers chose the tenth-grade students which consist of 35 students from Akuntansi class as the respondents. Moreover, the material given from the school is Application Letter hence it was chosen purposively by the researchers. Several tests were conducted in this research, there are normality tests. In this study, the normality test was carried out using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method. The results of this test show that the data is normally distributed, which is characterized by a p-value that is greater than the set significance level (α = 0.05). Then, the results in linearity test show that the relationship between the independent and dependent variables is linear, which is characterized by the pattern of data points forming a linear pattern. And while coefficient hypothesis test gives no relationship and the output results of the correlation test in this study show that there is no significant correlation between the variables studied, which is characterized by a correlation coefficient value close to zero and a p-value greater than the established significance level (α = 0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that changes in one variable are not followed by changes in other variables in this study.