Exploring The Potentials of Wattpad For Literature Class
Abstract
The advancement of technology has evolved our habits. One of them who are evolving are reading platform. Wattpad is one of the existing reading platform in the world. This research aims to see the potentials of this application for literature class. The research use descriptive quantitative method where the researchers conduct a survey towards 37 students and 7 lecturers in Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. This paper focused on answering two issues, which are the students perspectives of Wattpad in Literature Class and the Perspectives of Lecturer in seeing the potencies of Wattpad as media in literature teaching. the paper shown that wattpad is useful to increase the motivation of students in giving better engagement in reaching the literary competencies. This study suggest that Wattpad need to be use in the class to achieve literary comprehension among students.
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