scholarly journals Using Instagram in Teaching Writing for University Freshmen

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 1350
Author(s):  
Rosyida Asma’ul Husna ◽  
Mirjam Anugerahwati ◽  
Furaidah Furaidah
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Skill Improvement

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This study aimed at elaborating the use of Instagram in teaching writing for university freshmen. This current study contained a reflection from a lecturer who had used Instagram to improve students’ writing skill through process-genre based approach. The data were taken from a reflective daily journal. Further, the journal specifically informed what worked well and what did not from the use of Instagram for writing skill improvement. The result showed that Instagram could significantly improve students’ writing skill, especially to help them find that writing was part of social activities and create a good composition that had been perfectly finalized.</p><strong>Abstrak:</strong><em> </em>Penelitian ini membahas tentang penggunaan Instagram dalam pengajaran <em>writing skill</em> (keterampilan menulis) pada mahasiswa tahun pertama. Penelitian tersebut berisi tentang sebuah refleksi dari seorang pengajar yang telah menggunakan Instagram sebagai media pendukung pembelajaran <em>writing skill </em>melalui pendekatan proses-genre. Data penelitian berasal dari jurnal harian yang sekaligus digunakan untuk mencatat serangkaian kegiatan yang dilalui pada proses pengajaran. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan Instagram mampu meningkatkan keterampilan menulis mahasiswa sehingga mereka menyadari bahwa menulis merupakan bagian daripada kegiatan sosial serta, serta membantu mereka untuk bisa membuat sebuah karangan atau tulisan yang sempurna.  <em> </em>

scholarly journals Using Web Blog for EFL Students in Writing Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-535
Author(s):  
Hengki Kris Sanjaya ◽  
Eka Apriani ◽  
Sarwo Edy
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Technology Experience ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Skill Improvement

In teaching writing, media is an essential aspect This research discovers students’ perception on weblogs as an educational tool in writing class in order to improving students’ writing skill. This quantitative research discussed 30 English Foreign Language (EFL) students. In obtaining the data, the thirty students of 8th semester at English Study Program of IAIN Curup were given a set of questionnaire to get students’ response on weblogs. After obtaining the data, the researcher analyzes the students response by counting its frequency and percentage. The findings of this research Indicated that the majority of students have positive perception on weblogs based on five indicators that is provided by researcher, those are: students confidence to write, writing skill improvement, Information and Communication Technology experience and knowledge, critical thinking promotion and accessible aspect. This research revealed that students give positive response to the use of weblogs as a medium in writing class. Furthermore, students also prefer to do their assignment on blog rather than write conventionally on paper. Findings of this research also advise the English teacher and lecturer to consider weblogs as medium and learning tool in school and university since it can encourage students’ writing achievement. The researcher also provide conclusion in this article.

scholarly journals Developing Students’ Writing Skill through Peer and Teacher Correction: An Action Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Sapkota
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Progress Test ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Correction Technique ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Post Test

Writing is a form of an art and integral part of language learning. The present study concerns with development of writing skills through peer and teacher correction technique. As an action research in nature, the research aimed to test the progress of the students while writing an essay. After the analysis of data collected through test items, it was seen improvement in students writing in post test than in pre-test. The students (Ss1-Ss10) were found using the words in an increased order and grammatically correct sentences in their writing in each test made and committed less grammatical errors in post test than in pre and progress test. Regarding mechanics of writing, their writing was found systematic in case of punctuation, proper use of paragraphs, in coherence and cohesion in writing. The peer correction and teacher correction technique was found productive in teaching writing through action research as a whole. Journal of NELTA, Vol. 17 No. 1-2, December 2012, Page 70-82 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v17i1-2.8094

scholarly journals Effects of Pop Culture for Improving Student-Teachers’ Writing Skill (A Case Study at Galuh University)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ratnawati Ratnawati
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Writing Skill

Writing, one of the four skills which have to be taught by educators in language learning. Starting from classroom observation implied that students confronted the difficulties in writing involving generating ideas, organizing words, and making compositions. This study supposes to explore some effects of pop culture as authentic materials for English language teaching in improving students’ writing skill. Due to pop culture relates to students’ life and experience, it is considered to be a stimulus for gaining students’ ideas, information, motivation, and interest in teaching writing. The students of secondary school were involved in this study and descriptive case study was employed to observe the importance of pop culture in writing class. Also, questionnaires and students’ works are the instruments to measure its effects. Both students’ works and result of the questionnaires pointed out that significantly improvement obtained after applying pop culture. In line with findings, it can be said that pop cultures have significant effects toward students’ writing skill. So, educators need to apply pop culture as their choices in future planning lesson.

scholarly journals Peer Feedback Technique in Teaching Writing Skill of the Third Semester Students of IAIN Parepare

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Magdahalena Magdahalena ◽  
Rasmah Nursira
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
The Third ◽  
Writing Skill

Writing is still considered as a difficult skill in language learning by Indonesian students. For that reason, it is urgent for teacher to seek for interesting ways to teach writing in the classroom. This study examines the effectiveness of  the use of peer feedback technique to improve students’ skill in writing descriptive paragraph. Some studies have proved the effectiveness of the technique to improve students’ writing skill. The study employs experimental research in which one class of 20 students is  taught to write narrative paragraph and correct their paragraph using peer feedback technique. The result of the study shows that the technique improves the students writing skill in narrative writing, however the scores are not significant. This suggests that there is a factor that affects the result of the teaching using peer feedback, and it is the less time of treatment which is indicated as the factor.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ RESPONSES TOWARD THINK TALK WRITE STRATEGY IN TEACHING WRITING

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 568
Author(s):  
Ika Yulia Anggraeni ◽  
Yanuarti Apsari
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Writing skill is one of the skills that is difficult to learn because we have to know the correct sentence composition and also what we hear must be in accordance with what we write and therefore this skill is very important to learn. The objective of the research is to identify the sudents’ responses toward think talk write (TTW) strategy in teacihng writing skill. The research used descriptive qualitative design. The respondents of this research were eighth grade students of SMP Pasundan 1 Cimahi. The instrument of this research was questionnaire. The result of data analysis shows that students gave positive responses toward TTW strategy. The respondents agree that TTW strategy can increase students’ motivation, TTW Strategy can help students in improving their writing skill and TTW strategy can make teaching and learning process interesting. Keywords:  Writing, Think Talk Write (TTW) Strategy, Student’s Responses  

scholarly journals THE USE OF FLASHCARDS FOR TEACHING WRITING TO ENGLISH YOUNG LEARNERS (EYL)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Paramita Kusumawardhani
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
Classroom Action Research

<p>The aims of this research are to know about the use of flashcards to improve the English Young Learners’ writing skills. English has four skills to be learned; they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and writing skill is the most difficult skill to be taught and learnt. Flashcards are one of the ways to improve the learners’ skill, especially EYL writing skill. The participants of this research are English Young Learners (EYL) in of the English Course at Gading Serpong, Tangerang. Classroom Action Research (CAR) was used as the method of the research and the English Young Learners’ (EYL) story paper are used as the instruments of the research. The results of the research are: (1) Most learners were excited when they are asked to see the colorful flashcard; (2) Learners who have good writing skill could make the story by completing the missing words and answer the questions then arrange the answer sentences well and (3) Learners who are not really master in writing, got some difficulties not only in completing the missing words but also answering then arranging the answer sentences well.</p>

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING EXAMPLE NON-EXAMPLE STRATEGY AT GRADE X OF VOCATIONAL MADRASAH ALIYAH ADZQIA BELIMBING

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Puspa Gundary ◽  
Aprizon Aprizon
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Positive Results

The purposes of this research were to find out whether example non-example strategy can improve the students’ writing skill on descriptive, and to find out what factors influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill in writing descriptive text. This research was Classroom Action Research. This research was conducted in two cycles, which each cycle had three meetings. It was conducted from August 1st until August 31th.The researcher gathered the data in each cycles from observation checklist, field notes, interviews, and writing test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that Example non-example strategy was able to improve the students’ writing skill of descriptive text through the process of comprehending the students, and assisting the students while they were writing. As the results, the students could improve their writing skill which involved the improvement of mean score of writing indicators; vocabulary, content/ideas, and organization. Moreover, it could be seen from the improvement of their mean score of basic score (56), test I (h62.5), and test II (79.4). Furthermore, the factors that influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill involved materials, media, and learning strategy. To sum up, the implementation of Example non-example strategy in teaching writing of descriptive text could provide positive results on their writing skill

Outcome Assessment of a Writing-Skill Improvement Initiative: Results and Methodological Implications

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hollis Ashbaugh ◽  
Karla M. Johnstone ◽  
Terry D. Warfield
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Outcome Assessment ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Skill Improvement ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

This paper reports the outcome assessment of our accounting department's writing-skill improvement initiative. We employ complementary experimental designs to examine the effects of professionally relevant writing experiences on accounting students' writing-skill development. Using a between-subjects experimental design, we compare the writing skills of accounting students who participated in our writing initiative with the writing skills of other business students who did not participate. Using a within-subjects experimental design, we track improvements of accounting students' writing skills over time. Results from both outcome assessment methodologies indicate that accounting students' writing skills improve as students participate in our writing initiative. This paper provides insight into the features of a successful writing initiative and offers methodological suggestions for conducting outcome assessments of writing initiatives.

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