Candra, Rukma Maya A. 2022. Students’ Perceptions of Using Canva in Creative Writing Course. Sarjana’s Thesis. English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Dr. Hj. Noor Eka Chandra, M.Pd., the second advisor: Fahmi Hidayat, M.Pd 

Keywords: Canva Application, Creative Writing, Canva in Creative Writing Course

The purpose of this study is to identify the students' perceptions of using Canva application in a creative writing course and to know how Canva might help students develop their creative writing. Whether they have positive perception or negative perception. 

The research design of this research is descriptive quantitative to collect and analyze the data. The data for this study was taken from students of the ELESP of Lambung Mangkurat University who had taken the Creative Writing course and also used Canva in class. The sample for this research is 46 students. The data were collected by using a Likert scale and interview, as the instruments. The researcher distributed the participants a Likert scale sheets to answer the five-point Likert scale, which contains the indicators consisting of 24 statements. Then, the researcher conducted the interviews with the sample representative of approximately 5 ELESP students. The results of this study indicated that the use of Canva in Creative Writing courses has positive perceptions from students. The Canva application makes it easy for students to express their feelings through available features and designs for creative writing. Students also feel more creative, innovative, and motivated to produce professional creative writing products. In addition, students also feel more confident to publish their performances in writing. Not only positive perceptions that students have, but there are also disadvantages to utilizing Canva, such as students needing extra time to create programs using Canva, and Canva users needing a stable internet network for efficient use because the unstable network may make it difficult to export the finished product.

Based on the results of the analysis, most of the ELESP students of Lambung Mangkurat University have positive perception on using Canva application as online learning tool with the calculation of the result of the questionnaire is 69,7% which is in agree category.

The suggestions were made to students, English teachers, and other researchers. For students, after using audio-visual software such as Canva in their writing assignments, students are expected to have a high level of self-confidence; for English teachers, teachers must be innovative; for other researchers, the researcher hopes that further researchers can conduct research with a large sample