Teaching writing across disciplines: The early secondary school years

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-294
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Ann Kitson
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching Writing

scholarly journals THE TEACHERS’ BELIEFS IN TEACHER WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON THE STUDENTS' WRITING

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dyah Fitri Mulati ◽  
Joko Nurkamto ◽  
Nur Arifah Drajati
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Written Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Writing Strategy ◽  
Specific Teaching

Examining EFL writing teachers’ beliefs is becoming an essential study since teaching is no longer being noticed merely in a behaviour term but rather as thoughtful behaviour as teachers are active, thinking decision-maker. This study addresses the teachers’ beliefs in the specific teaching writing strategy that is commonly used by the teachers in Indonesia to assist students’ writing, teacher written corrective feedback. It was designed as a case study surveying two teachers from a secondary school in Lampung as its respondents. This current study aims at (1) exploring teachers’ beliefs in providing teacher written corrective feedback both in the explicitness and the amount of feedback, and (2) describing the factors that shape teachers’ beliefs in providing written corrective feedback. The data were collected by using mixed-type questionnaire and interview adapted from Lee (2009) consisting of three items related to the beliefs in written corrective feedback, followed by the factors that shape the beliefs teachers may hold on. The findings show some underlie different beliefs regarding the explicitness and amount of teacher written corrective feedback between the teachers. However, they agreed that academic background in the secondary school and college was counted as the contributed factor that shapes their beliefs in providing written corrective feedback on students’ writing. Further, teacher added practical experience when they are teaching writing as her additional factor.

scholarly journals PLEASE Strategy for Teaching Writing Viewed from Students' Self-Esteem

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-319
Author(s):  
Arief Eko Priyo Atmojo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Tukey Test ◽  
Innovative Materials ◽  
Multifactor Analysis ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

This research aims to investigate whether: (1) PLEASE strategy is more effective than RAFT strategy for writing; (2) Students having high self-esteem are better in writing than those having low self-esteem; and (3) There is an interaction between the strategies and the students’ self-esteem. This research was done at a state secondary school located in Sragen, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia. Cluster random sampling was employed to get the sample consisting of two classes. PLEASE strategy was used in the experimental class meanwhile RAFT strategy was employed in the control class. The students in each class were categorized into students having high self-esteem and low self-esteem. Writing test and self-esteem questionnaire were utilized to gather data. Multifactor Analysis of Variance ANOVA 2 x 2 test and Tukey test were employed to analyze the data after normality and homogeneity tests were undergone. The results indicate that: (1) PLEASE strategy is more effective than RAFT strategy for writing; (2) Students having high self-esteem are better in writing than those having low self-esteem; and (3) There is an interaction between the strategies and the students’ self-esteem. It suggests that PLEASE strategy is an effective strategy for writing compared to RAFT strategy. Further researches comparing PLEASE strategy to other strategies, techniques, or methods and collaborating it with media and innovative materials for writing are encouraged.

scholarly journals “Et bra prosjekt som har gjort meg til en bedre skriver”– arbeid med skrivestrategier i videregående skole

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Elvebakk ◽  
Evy Jøsok
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Learning Groups ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Explicit Teaching ◽  
Teacher Learning Communities

Temaet for denne artikkelen er skriveopplæring i videregående skole. Artikkelen studerer en intervensjon med eksplisitt skriveopplæring og innføring av skrive¬ramme. Intensjonen har vært å se hvordan lærere kan samarbeide om skrive¬opplæringen på tvers av fag, og hvordan femavsnittsmetoden fungerer som redskap og strategi i opplæringen. Vi har primært vært interesserte i elevenes tanker om skriveopplæring og egen skrivekompetanse, og dette ser vi i sammen¬heng med hvordan faglærerne opplever å samarbeide på tvers av fagene. Data¬materialet vårt er observasjoner og spørreundersøkelser i etterkant av inter¬vensjonen. Analysen viser i hovedsak at elevene opplever at de har hatt nytte av femavsnittsmetoden, og at de ser stor verdi i at lærerne i ulike fag bruker en noenlunde lik tilnærming til skrivingen. Det kommer også fram at elevene finner det utfordrende å skrive gode fagtekster. Svarene fra lærerne peker i samme retning. Lærerne oppfatter at felles satsing på skriving er nyttig, og de fram¬hever verdien av lærersamarbeidet på tvers av fagene. Et interessant funn er at arbeidet med skriverammer har satt i gang betydningsfulle samtaler rundt skriving og tekstkompetanse både i kollegiet og i klasserommene.Nøkkelord: skolebasert arbeid med skriving, eksplisitt skriveopplæring, skrive-rammer, femavsnittsmetodenAbstractThe subject of this article is discursive writing. The article studies an inter-vention focusing on explicit teaching and implementation of writing frames in upper secondary school. The aim is to investigate the students’ perspectives regarding the teaching and their evaluation of writing competencies. These results are analysed in connection with the teachers’ experiences from teacher learning groups across disciplines. Our data are based on observations and surveys from both students and teachers. The results show that in general, the students have benefited from explicit teaching and a common approach across the disciplines. However, they also report on the difficulties regarding dis-cursive writing. The results for the teachers are similar. In addition, they report that teachers’ learning communities are valuable. The most interesting finding of this study was that the explicit teaching initiated meaningful discussion concerning learning and student writing.Keywords: teacher learning communities, explicit teaching, writing frames, five paragraph essays

scholarly journals Digital Storytelling as a Creative Teaching Method in Promoting Secondary School Students’ Writing Skills

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Rong Lim ◽  
Norah Md Noor
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Post Test

Abstract - With the current needs of shaping 21st-century classroom in schools, the use of technology has now become compulsory for teachers to incorporate in the classroom. The exposure to technology is highly necessary for the current generation to prepare them for the future ahead. Digital storytelling is one of the tools available in the market for learning. There is no much research yet found in Malaysia that investigates the usefulness of the digital storytelling in promoting secondary school students’ writing skills. Therefore, this research tries to implement one digital storytelling tool in teaching Writing for English Form 1 and tries to identify the elements of digital storytelling tool that might be able to promote students’ writing skills. This research involved fifteen Form 1 students. The data was collected through four (4) time series tests in a pre-experimental research study. The students’ performance in each treatment were marked according to the Rubrics to Assess Digital Stories and were analysed using Friedman Ranks Test. The finding shows that there is an improvement in students’ performance after four treatments of using the Digital Storytelling tools. For the elements of digital storytelling tool that affected after using the digital storytelling tool, the student respondents always applied six elements: ‘Overall Purpose of the Story’, ‘Dramatic Questions’, ‘Choice of Content’, ‘Pacing of the Narrative’, ‘Quality of the Images’ and ‘Good Grammar and Language Usage’. Furthermore, there is an improvement in student respondents’ post-test marks after four treatments of using Storybird. The study shows a relationship between elements of digital storytelling tool in the four treatments and students’ writing performance in post-test. All of the elements shows a significant relationship with students’ writing performance except for ‘Dramatic Questions’.

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Cooking Academy Game towards Students’ Writing Ability

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Nofrika Sari ◽  
Hayatin Nufus
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Procedure Text ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Write Text

This study is an experimental research that discussed the impact of the use of cooking academy game in teaching writing on the students’ ability in writing procedure text at class VII Junior Secondary School I Pangkalan Baru Lima Puluh Kota. This study was aimed to determine the effects of the use of cooking academy game towards the student's ability in writing procedure text. In this study, the population is the students of class VII, while sample are two classes: one class for the experimental class and another class for control. Samples were drawn randomly. Data were collected by giving pre-test and post-test on the sample. Data were, then, analyzed applying t-test formula. The results showed that students who were taught to write text using the procedure of cooking academy game has the ability to write higher than students who are not taught by using games cooking academy.

scholarly journals Development of Secondary School Students’ Generic Structure Execution in Personal Experience Recount Writing Texts through SFL Genre-based Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Pajonsak Mingsakoon ◽  
Udomkrit Srinon
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year

This paper is a partial fulfillment of the dissertation undertaken with the case study of teaching writing recounts for the EFL Thai upper secondary school students with SFL genre-based approach at Hunkhapittayakom Secondary School, Hunkha District, Chainat Province, Thailand, the second semester of the academic year 2015. This study focused on the analysis of students’ generic structure development of recount writing texts through SFL perspective. Teaching of personal experience recount genre using the teaching-learning cycle of the SFL genre-based approach was employed to 26 Mattayom Suksa five students. The analysis of the students’ pretest writing texts showed that they could not control the structures of their texts in that these writing texts were non-conformed to the stages of recount writing, and the themes were sidetracked from the topic. However, when these students were exposed writing with the SFL genre-based approach, the analysis demonstrated that their personal experience recounts were positively developed with a higher degree of generic structure construction in terms of conformity when compared to the modeling texts of the literature review and the pretest texts at the commencement of the course. It was observable that all students could expand communicative details and dialogic expansion in their final personal experience recount texts from such the orientation stage, the series of the events and the re-orientation stage with some CODA, argumentative elaboration. This is argued that SFL genre-based approach helps promote the students’ understanding and writing ability about the meaning, purpose and organization of the personal experience recount texts insofar that they could independently execute the similar texts themselves in a more degree. The study suggested that the SFL genre-based approach should be promoted continuously to develop writing skill of secondary school students in all levels of education related or in other similar contexts.

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