scholarly journals Portfolio System in Teaching Writing: EFL Students' Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Tungga Pramudya Utama
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Teachers And Students

The portfolio system appears as one alternative answer for such a challenge encountered by an English teacher. The research about the portfolio system that focused on students' perception is quite necessary since it helps the teachers and students of the English language find a proper way of learning writing skills. This study aimed to investigate the students' perception of using a portfolio system to improve writing ability in teaching writing skills in English as a foreign language to high school students. The participants of this research were four students of high school. In conducting this case study, the researcher collected data from the interview. This research found that the students favored implementing a portfolio system to improve their English writing skills. This research stands as a contribution to teaching English writing skills. This study suggests that a portfolio system is a useful tool for teaching English writing skills in secondary education. It can use the teacher to facilitate the students by giving feedback on their writing to encourage their writing performance.

scholarly journals The Differences in Communication Ability and Mathematical Disposition of Students who are given a Geogebra- Assisted Contextual Learning Model and the Cooperatif Learning Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 403-411
Author(s):  
Tungga Pramudya Utama ◽  
Sumardi Sumardi ◽  
Slamet Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Writing

The portfolio system exists as one alternative answer for a challenge encountered by an English teacher. The research about the portfolio system that focused on middle education teachers' perception is quite necessary since it helps the teachers and students of the English language find a proper way of learning writing skills. This study aimed to investigate the middle education teachers' perception of using a portfolio system to improve writing ability in teaching writing skills in English as a foreign language to junior high school students. The participants of this research were four junior high school teachers. In conducting this case study, the researcher collected data from the interview. This research found that the teachers favored implementing a portfolio system to improve students’ English writing skills. This research stands as a contribution to teaching English writing skills. This study suggests that a portfolio system is a useful tool for teaching English writing skills in middle education. The teachers were to facilitate the students by applying the portfolio system and giving feedback on their writing to encourage their writing performance.

scholarly journals Facebook Utilisation to Enhance English Writing Skill

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
. Sabaruddin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
School Context ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Secondary High School

This paper aims to investigate the use of Facebook in enhancing English writing skill of Indonesian students in the secondary high school context. The result of this research is hopefully beneficial to overcome English writing difficulties of secondary high school students in Indonesia. The discussion informs that Facebook utilisation in teaching writing improves learners motivation to write in English, increases grammar mastery of the students, and provides abundant learning materials for the learners to develop their English writing ability. The result of this study will be useful as a reference for English teachers to adjust Facebook use into their teaching practice in order to help students in improving their English writing skill.

scholarly journals THE USE OF PROCESS-PRODUCT HYBRID APPROACH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS� WRITING SKILLS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Yayan Suryana ◽  
Deden Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Process Product

This paper comes out of concerns about teaching English writing to vocational high school students in EFL learners� context. This study points out how the process-product hybrid approach affects students� writing skills in solving some complex problems in order to generate deep comprehension of writing. In this study, quasi-experimental research was applied to measure the students� writing improvement by collecting the data from instruments which covered pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire. The findings showed that students� writing skill improved significantly. It also revealed that almost all of the students responded the statements positively and they believed that this approach can help them in improving their writing skill since it gives full comprehension of writing and serves more interesting teaching learning activities. Therefore, this integrated approach has become the most recommended approach for teachers to improve students� writing competences.Keywords: process-product hybrid approach, teaching English writing, students� writing skills.

scholarly journals Challenges in teaching English writing skills: Lessons learnt from Indonesian high school English language teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Nurhardiyanti Adam ◽  
Abid Abid ◽  
Yusna Bantulu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
English Language Teachers

Writing skill, among the four target language skills, is one of the skills that language learners need to master. In teaching this skill, therefore, teachers should take any effort to help learners write using the language they learn correctly. However, in the context of teaching English in Indonesia, particularly the writing skill, teachers often face challenges. The study reported in this article seeks to identify the challenges experienced by several Indonesian English language teachers in teaching English writing skills at VHS, a vocational high school, in Gorontalo, Indonesia. The participants involved were all English language teachers working at the school. Data were collected using interview and observation, and analyzed by using a thematic analysis method. The findings showed that there were four themes describing the teachers’ challenges in teaching English writing skills. They were teaching technique-related challenges, teaching time-related challenges, linguistics-related challenges, and learning motivation-related challenges. Even though the teachers are able to cope with the challenges, they still need to explore more strategies in teaching, thus the teaching and learning process can run effectively.

scholarly journals Insights into EFL Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives on Communicative Skills Represented in English Textbooks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Phan Ngoc Tu ◽  
Tran Quoc Thao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
School Students ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Textbooks

Course books play an integral part in the process of teaching and learning in general and that of English language teaching and learning. Additionally, it is vital to choose appropriate course books for students to develop their communicative skills. In the context of Vietnam, the new English textbooks for high school students have been designed in an attempt to enhance the communication competence among Vietnamese high school students. Within such a context, this study aims at exploring EFL teachers and students’ perspectives on communicative skills represented in the new English textbooks grade 10. This study involved 42 students in answering a questionnaire and 5 teachers in responding the interview questions. The findings indicated that the new English textbooks grade 10 could improve their communicative skills. Specifically, the activities designed in the textbooks reinforced the communicative skills among students. Furthermore, language provided in the textbooks is appropriate and conducive for students, and the subject and content could aid students’ communicative skills. Such preliminary findings are hoped to contribute to a better understanding of the new English textbooks in English language learning in Vietnamese context.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Challenges in Teaching English Writing Skills for Visually Impaired Students at Indonesian Special Senior High Schools

ELT-Lectura ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Prih Febtiningsih ◽  
Ardiya ◽  
Agung Prasetyo Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Visually Impaired Students

Teaching English at Indonesian special senior high schools is applied based on the curriculum determined by the government. However, there were some problems found in English language teaching for visually impaired students especially in writing. This research aimed to investigate the teachers’ challenges in teaching English writing for visually impaired students. The respondents were taken purposively, namely the English teachers at Indonesian special senior high schools for visually impaired students namely SLB Sri Mujinab, SLB Negeri Pembina and SLB Kasih Ibu. The data for the research were collected from semi-structured interview conducted to get specific information about what challenges encountered by the English teachers teaching writing skills for students with visual impairment. The challenges encountered by the teachers in teaching writing were inappropriateness of curriculum and syllabus with the students’ need, time constraint of teaching,  lack of learning media, lack of teaching strategy, inappropriateness of teacher’s qualification, and students’ attitude problem. These challenges made the teachers difficult in teaching English writing.   Keywords: Teaching Writing, Visual Impairment, Teachers’ Challenges, English Language Teaching

WRITING MATERIAL FOR OFFICE ADMINISTRATION STUDY PROGRAM IN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: STUDENTS’ NEED ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Iga Yolanda ◽  
N. Ngadiso ◽  
S. Sumardi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Need Analysis

Vocational High School is course with aim to prepare the students to have specific skills by having practical activities based on its study program. It has the same purpose with English for specific purposes (ESP) course which aims to meet the students’ specific language need. ESP courses help students to use English appropriately as well as accurately to perform their jobs in a various situations where they encounter their English language function. ESP course often begins with the students’ need. Students’ need analysis is needed to be identified to be able to meet the effective learning material based on what the students really need. This study aims to investigate the writing materials needs of eleventh grade students of Office Administration study program in Vocational High School from viewpoints of students. This study used descriptive qualitative analysis with questionnaire and interview method to collect the data. The subjects of the research were eleventh grade of Office Administration students that consisted of 34 students by using purposive sampling. The result indicated that the students have several needs in terms of target needs and learning needs. Target needs are divided into necessities, wants, and lacks. Based on the result of target needs, the students are lack of component of writing skills including express ideas, write with correct organization, use correct grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling, and use appropriate vocabulary based on the context of the text. Thus, the students need and want to learn those components of writing skills. Meanwhile, learning needs are divided into input, procedure, setting, and accessibility. The input is divided into content of materials, activities, and design. The teachers should pay attention more on those aspects to fulfill the students’ need to help them transition successfully to their future careers after graduation.

scholarly journals Teaching Writing by Using Social Media for High School Students in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Syofianis Ismail ◽  
M. Zaim ◽  
Nurhizrah Gistituanti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Senior High School Students

The purpose of the research is to find out the students’ ability in writing, especially writing recount text by using Facebook as a medium of discussion. In the classroom students set up their Cellphone to write and discuss a recount text. The research question is “Is there any significant effect on students writing recount text by using face book as medium for discussion on Senior High School students?” In the preliminary study it was found that the students’ writing ability was low. Hence, the writer is interested in trying to solve the students’ problem by using Facebook as a medium of discussion. The design of this research was an experimental research. The sample for this research consisted of 25 students. The result of this research found that Facebook as medium for discussion significantly affect the students writing ability. Keywords: facebook, recount text, and medium  

scholarly journals Teknik Permainan Kartu Memo dalam Pembelajaran Aksara Sunda

LOKABASA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-179
Author(s):  
Muhamad Farid ◽  
Rahman Rahman ◽  
Usep Kuswari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Academic Year

The background of this study is the lack of students’ ability to write Sundanese writing. This study has a purpose to describe students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing based on the form, grammatical writing, also manners before using memo cards game students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing based on the form, grammatical writing, also manners after using memo cards game the effectiveness of memo cards game to help increasing the students’ writing ability in Sundanese writing based on the form, grammatical writing, and also manners. Using the quasi-experimental research and one-group pretest and posttest design. This study collected the data using tests to the Junior High School students grade VII-A in SMPN 2 Lembang, academic year 2018/2019 which is 37 students. The results show that: 1) students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing before using memo cards game is about 60,13 from the 70 of passing grade; 2) students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing after using memo cards game increase to 74,66; and 3) there is a significant difference between the students’ writing before using memo cards game and after using memo cards game. We can see from the hypothesis experiment that the value of Asimp. Sig (2-Tailed) is 0,000. We can conclude that the memo card game technique can mrove the writing skills of Sundanese grade VII-A junior high school student in academic year 2018/2019.AbstrakLatar belakang penelitian ini adalah kurangnya kemampuan dalam menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang taun ajaran 2018/2019. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo berdasarkan bentuk, tatacara penulisan, serta kaidah-kaidahnya, dan perbedaan yang signifikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu studi kuasi eksperimen dengan desain penelitian one-group pretest and posttest. Teknik yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data dalam penelitian ini yaitu menggunakan tes kepada siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajar 2018/2019 yang berjumlah 37 siswa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan dapat diketahui bahwa, (1) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda sebelum menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 60,13, (2) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda setelah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 74,66 3) terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara kemampuan menulis siswa terhadap aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan  kartu memo. Hal tersebut dapat kita lihat dari uji hipotesis bahwa nilai Asimp. Sig (2-Tailed) sebesar 0,000. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Teknik Permainan Kartu Memo dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajaran 2018/2019.Abstrak: Latar belakang penelitian ini adalah kurangnya kemampuan dalam menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang taun ajaran 2018/2019. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo berdasarkan bentuk, tatacara penulisan, serta kaidah-kaidahnya, dan perbedaan yang signifikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu studi kuasi eksperimen dengan desain penelitian one-group pretest and posttest. Teknik yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data dalam penelitian ini yaitu menggunakan tes kepada siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajar 2018/2019 yang berjumlah 37 siswa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan dapat diketahui bahwa, (1) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda sebelum menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 60,13, (2) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda setelah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 74,66 3) terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara kemampuan menulis siswa terhadap aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan  kartu memo. Hal tersebut dapat kita lihat dari uji hipotesis bahwa nilai Asimp. Sig (2-Tailed) sebesar 0,000. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Teknik Permainan Kartu Memo dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajaran 2018/2019.

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