The Use of Proper Diction in Giving Comment and Feedback through Online Discussion Forums ( ODFs) in Canvas

Student could write comment or feedback to their peers in ODFs. The understanding in discussion would be affected with some factors, one of those is the proper diction. This study aimed to investigate the use of proper diction in Online Discussion Forums (ODFs). Descriptive qualitative method was chosen to provide a summary of the information collected from the result. The participants of this study were 20 second semester students from Guided Writing class that used ODFs from Canvas learning platform. To collect the data, observation was held in some online discussion in Canvas to investigate the proper diction that students used in ODFs. The observation focused on the proper diction used by student in giving comment and feedback. To support the data from the observation, the researcher also conducted indirect semi-structured interview using google form. It has 10 questions about the use of proper diction in ODFs in Canvas learning platform. The results showed, there are some mistakes in using proper diction used in giving comment and feedback such as the used of synonym that have similar meaning but cannot be used in the context. Also some factors affect students in selecting the diction such as interface, time and student language skill.