scholarly journals Developing a Literature-Based Instructional Material for Essay Writing Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Lestari Setyowati ◽  
Sony Sukmawan ◽  
Ana Ahsana El-Sulukkiyah
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Material ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Academic Year

<p class="abstract">The inclusion of literature for language teaching is not something new.  Nowadays, the use of literature is becoming quite common for teaching language skills.  The purpose of this study is to develop an instructional material by using literature-based instruction for essay writing course in University of PGRI Wiranegara, Pasuruan.   The research used Gall, Borg, &amp; Gall research and development procedure with some adaptations. The instruments used in the study were questionaires, interview, and tests. The instructional material was tried out and tested to students who joined essay writing class in the academic year 2018-2019.  The students’ essays were analyzed by using Jacobs ESL Composition profile covering five elements, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language and mechanics. The result of the study shows that the instructional material was proven to be adequately successful to be used for essay wrting course. The use of literature for teaching writing gives benefits for the students, not only in terms of their writing skills, but also sharpen their critical thinking ability.</p>

scholarly journals EFL College Students’ Skill in Using Collocations in Writing Essays

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Dewi Nopita
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Academic Year

Collocation is a natural order of words in which one word should be attached to another in a particular context. For students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL students), using collocations has been recognized to become a problem. This article is going to describe EFL college students’ skill in using collocations in writing essays. 42 students from the same class were selected. They were the 4th semester students of English Education Study Program at Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UMRAH who took Essay Writing course in the academic year 2019/ 2020. The students were given a take-home assignment to write essays. Then, the essays were analyzed to find out the students’ skill in using collocations. It was found that in using collocation in writing essays, 5 students had excellent skill, 14 students had good skill, and 23 students had low skill. The incorrect use of collocations consisted of lexical and grammatical collocations. Finally, it is hoped that these findings could be a useful input for future Essay Writing course.

scholarly journals THE ANALYSIS OF BRAINSTORMING STRATEGY ON TEACHING WRITING IN THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Elia Puspitasari ◽  
Titik Lina Widyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
University Level ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This research was aimed to analyze a brainstorming strategy on teaching writing, especially in writing a short story for the second-semester students of the English Department in (STKIP) PGRI Tulungagung in the academic year 2017/2018. This research was conducted using qualitative methodology. The researcher observed and analyzed the writing class where the lecturer was applying a brainstorming strategy. Qualitative data had been collected from observation of the teaching-learning process, interview with the lecturer and the students, and also questionnaire given to twenty students in that class. The data was in the form of observation, interview transcripts, and the results of the questionnaire. In this research, the researcher involved twenty participants to fill the questionnaire. There were six students from those twenty students and the lecturer who were involved in the process of interview. The result of the research showed that implementing a brainstorming strategy in writing class could improve student's skills in writing, especially writing a short story. The brainstorming strategy helped students to generate their ideas and express the ideas into a systematic paragraph. The students also felt that this strategy could improve their writing. When the lecturer applied a brainstorming strategy, the students could do their writing assignments better and also got good results. Thus, the researcher suggested that the lecturer and the students to apply a brainstorming strategy in ordered that the students’ writing skills could be improved.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN PROBLEM BASED INSTRUCTION (PBI) BERBASIS AUTENTIK ASESMENT UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Fujiah Fujiah ◽  
Saiful Prayogi ◽  
Samsun Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Essay Test ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Planning Action

The objective of this research was to know the improvement of students critical thinking ability in MA Islahul Ummah NW Bunut Baok, academic year 2015/2016 by using PBI based on authentic assessment. This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) and it consisted of two cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data of student’s critical thinking ability was taken by giving student test, it was form of essay test. The results were obtainedseveral findings namely: 1) at first cycle: the mean score of students’ critical thinking abilitywas 54,41 and categorized into low category; 2) at second cycle:the mean score of students’ critical thinking ability was 85,29and categorizedintohigh category. Based on the results of this research can be concluded thatPBI based on authentic assessment can improve students’ critical thinkingability at the X grade students of MA. Islahul Ummah NW Bunut Baok, academic year 2015/2016.

DEVELOPING REALIA IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Supra Cipto And Neni Afrida Sari Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Media ◽  
Academic Year

This research is aimed to develop a good realia as a media, easy to be learnt, and can be used for teaching writing descriptive text. This study is developmental research uses Sugiyono’s model. The evaluator of the media are three experts. This instruments employed in this study is a questionnaire, interview, and Test (Pre-test and Post-test). The finding of the study is the quality of the developed realia media viewed from the experts is very good (87,2 %). The final product of this realia media is continued with effectiveness exam. The study takes place in MTs. Swasta Al-Jam’iyatul Wasliyah Tembung to the studens of VIII class, academic year 2016-2017. The samples are 40 students which is given a miniature of SIB monument and National monument as realia. Pre-test and Post-test were administrated to measure students’ ability in writing descriptive text before and after using realia. The scoring system was based on five aspects; they are content, organization, vocabulary, language use, mechanics. The result shows that there is an increase of students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using realia as a media. Therefore, the writer suggest to English teacher to develop realia as one of the alternative ways to increase the students’ descriptive text writing ability.

Authentic Materials For Teaching Writing: A Critical Look

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Lestari - Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Teaching Procedure ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Based Instruction

Teaching writing is not easy. Writing teachers often face problems with what kind of materials suitable for the students. This paper is intended to describe 1) the theoretical relationship between Content-Based Instruction and authentic materials that can be used by language teachers to teach writing in the classroom, 2) the previous studies of authentic materials used for teaching writing, 3) the type of authentic materials which can be used for teaching writing, and 4) the advantages and disadvantages of using authentic materials for teaching writing. The method used was qualitative research focused on content analysis. The instrument used was mainly human instrument and documentation. The result of the extensive review of literature shows that 1) one of the main feature of content-based instruction is the use of authentic materials for teaching; 2) most studies in the area of authentic materials for teaching writing shows the effectiveness of authentic materials for teaching procedure texts, descriptive texts and essay writing; 3) the type of authentic materials used for teaching writing is categorized based on how it is transmitted, namely audio, visual, and printed material materials; 4) aside from having its advantages, authentic materials also give challenges for the teacher to use it for classroom teaching, among others are practicality, comprehensibility and appropriateness.

scholarly journals Using Task-based Materials in Teaching Writing for EFL Classes in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Sundari ◽  
Rina Husnaini Febriyanti ◽  
Gustaman Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Classes ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
And Control ◽  
Method Approach

Task-based language teaching has been widely used for language classroom. Using tasks as main activities, task-based materials was developed particularly for writing class. This article is intended to present the study of effectiveness of task-based materials in improving writing class for university. To accommodate the research purposes, mixed method approach was carried out by using quasi experimental research and content analysis of sentence complexity. The respondents were 210 students from writing classes as experiment and control with writing test as instrument. The results of data analysis showed that there were significant differences of writing skill to those who taught using developed task-based materials. Despite the fact that the score did not significantly differ on the aspect of writing mechanics, a developed task-based material has been proved to improve students’ writing skill in the aspect of format, content, organization and grammar. Moreover, the levels of lexical complexity and accuracy from the students whose materials use task-based design are higher than those who do not use it. Then, it can be drawn a conclusion that the use of developed task-based materials brings significant effects toward writing performance.   

scholarly journals A Proposed Syllabus for EFL Writing Class at University

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Hanna Sundari ◽  
Rina Husnaini Febriyanti ◽  
Gustaman Saragih
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Writing Classes ◽  
R And D ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Development Approach

This present study intended to develop the first draft syllabus for writing course in English Education major. Particularly in teaching writing as foreign language, syllabus became one of the key factors for teachers before and while delivering thelesson. The research was carried out by initial steps of research and development approach (R and D). The respondents were the students from writing classes, writing lecturers, and the stakeholders in one university in Jakarta. In collecting data, the instruments were the questionnaire and in-depth interview. After analyzing the data from need analysis descriptively, the researchers have modeled a developed layout of the syllabus for writing class. The syllabus is developed in a set of concepts and rationale, general and specific objectives or outcomes of the course as competences, teaching methods, materials and content, practices and activity, and evaluation.

An Investigation into Using Flipped Classroom Model in an Academic Writing Class in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhat Quang Nguyen ◽  
Kean Wah Lee ◽  
Dung Ngoc Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Sivabala Naidu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
English Major ◽  
Academic Year

Taking cognizance of challenges of 21st century learning and the ubiquitous technologies available, a course applying flipped classroom model with a detailed combination of in-class and out-of-class activities was utilized to teach an academic writing module. The study aimed to (1) find out the effects of flipped classroom model towards improving learners' writing achievements and (2) investigate learners' attitudes towards this approach. 40 English-major freshmen at the Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam participated in the study during the second semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected to ensure the reliability as well as the validity of the results. Analysis of this data revealed that this model was beneficial as it not only improved learners' performance in the final exam but also brought about positive attitudes towards the learning process. Finally, suggestions on how the model could be improved and better utilized are also discussed so that positive learning outcomes in academic essay writing could be obtain

scholarly journals BASIC QUESTIONING WITH PICTURE IN WRITING CLASS: IS IT EFFECTIVE?

EDUPEDIA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Villia Rachmawati ◽  
Ana Maghfiroh ◽  
Restu Mufanti
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Statistical Hypothesis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

This research was carried out to measure whether using basic questioning with picture is effective in teaching writing. The research design used in this reasearch was experimental research which consisted of two groups, experimental and control group. The sample of this research were X IPA1 as the experimental group which consisted of 32 students and X IPA2 as the control group which consisted of 30 students. The experimental group was taught by using basic questioning with picture while the control group was not taught by using basic questioning with picture, it was taught as usual or lecturing only. The instrument used to collect data was test. The test was writing test which was given in pre test and post test both two groups. The assessment of the result of writing test was focused on the five elements of writing (content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic). The technique to analyze the data used t-test formula.Two groups were compared. The result of statistical hypothesis on significance α=0.05 showed ttest (2.91) was higher than ttable (2.00). It means that, there was significant difference between the students who were taught by using basic questioning with picture and the students who were not taught by using basic questioning with picture in teaching writing. From the explanation above, it can be concluded that the use of basic questioning with picture is effective in teaching writing of the tenth year students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo in Academic Year 2016/2017.

scholarly journals EMPLOYING SELF-ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE TO PROMOTE STUDENT’S WRITING ABILITY IN COMPOSING CAUSE-EFFECT ESSAY AT UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH GORONTALO

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Indah Wardaty Saud
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Year

This present study aimed to improve students’ writing ability through self-assessment technique. The researcher used an action research method with two cycles. Each of cycle compromised four procedures namely: planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The data was collected by observation and test. The researcher used an observation sheet towards students and teacher’s activities during teaching and learning process. In addition, the researcher used test to assess students’ achievement in writing. The subject of this study were 25 students of English Literature in Universitas Muhammadiyah Gorontalo who enrolled Essay Writing Subject in academic year of 2016/2017. The result showed that students’ writing ability improved significantly through self-assessment technique. The students had improvement in five aspects such as content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics. The students’ writing average score achieved 86,2. The students’ response towards the technique was good, that the students agree of the benefits they obtained through self-assessment technique.

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