The Views of Students and Pre-Service Teachers on Using Padlet for Mastery of Grammar and Writing Skills in Secondary Education

Padlet allows students to further explore their abilities and encourages them to share ideas and collaborate in learning. The purpose of this study was to know how students and pre-service teachers felt about using Padlet as a tool for learning grammar and writing in secondary education. A qualitative descriptive design was used in this study. Participants in this study included sixty students and six pre-service teachers from both a state school and an Islamic school in Indonesia. The data for this study were obtained through a closed-ended questionnaire along with observation and interviews that were aimed at obtaining the perceptions of students and pre-service teachers about the use of Padlet for teaching and learning grammar and writing skills. These were then analyzed using a qualitative descriptive method. The results of this study were that Padlet can be used as a learning tool that was quite effective and efficient for learning grammar. Learning implementation using Padlet allows students to better understand the material by exploring ideas through the Padlet platform.