THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUDIOVISUAL TEACHING MEDIA BASED ON GRAPHIC ORGANIZER TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN FINDING THE MAIN IDEA OF A PARAGRAPH

<p>This study aims to determine the validity, practicality, and effectiveness of the development of audio-visual teaching media based on Graphic Organizer to improve students’ ability to find the main idea of a paragraph at the fifth grade of MIN 2 in Labuhanbatu Selatan. This study follows the Research and Development (R &amp; D) developed by Borg and Gall and has been modified by Sugiyono. This includes nine steps, namely; Potential and Problems, Gathering Information, Product Design, Design Validation, Design Revision, Product Trial, Revision Product, Trial of Use, and Revision of Final Products. The data were collected from interviews, observation, and questionnaires. There were three instruments used, namely preliminary instruments, product development instruments, and product testing instruments. The data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative and quantitative analysis to describe the results of product development. The findings of this study indicate that 1) the validity of assessment made by the material experts of the product media was found to be 80%. The media expert’s assessment of product media obtained a percentage of 86.6%; 2) In terms of the practicality of the product, the percentage of responses given by small-scale students shows 97.6% and the percentage of responses given by large-scale students is 98.4%. Meanwhile, the results of the questionnaires filled by the teacher is 100%, which is adjusted to the practicality criteria table; 3) the average score for the effectiveness before using the product is 76.87%. Meanwhile, the average score for the effects after using the product is 94.37</p>

The graphic organizer’s effect on the students’ writing achievement in argumentative paragraph

The Graphic organizer strategy is visually mapped to organize the general into a particular idea in an argumentative paragraph to develop students’ writing scores. The purpose of this research is to enrich theoretical and practical strategiesin writing paragraph argumentatively. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a Pretest-post-test non-equivalent group and non-random sampling technique to determine the experimental group consisting of 23 participants and the control group consisting of 23 participants. The expert who validated the test was senior English lecturers. And the researcher used Cronbach’s Alpha to measure the reliability, and the result was 0.721 (acceptable). As the result, graphic organizer strategy significantly affected the students’ writing achievement in argumentative paragraphs, especially on the organization aspect. Additionally, this strategy also allowed them to explore their ideas independently and unconsciously builds some connecting words up.DOI 10.26905/enjourme.v6i1.5701

Engaging with ELL Students in Their Personal Writing

I am currently a student teacher at a charter school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My class is a self-contained 7th and 8th grade ELL classroom, where the cooperating teacher (CT) teaches all content classes. In English Language Arts (ELA) this month, students were assigned to write a personal friendship story. Prior to writing, students were asked to fill out a graphic organizer with three columns: (1) My Friends, (2) Places I have Friends, and (3) Things I like to do with Friends.

Using a Technology-Based Graphic Organizer to Improve the Planning and Persuasive Paragraph Writing by Adolescents With Disabilities and Writing Difficulties

A multiple-probe design was used to investigate the planning and persuasive paragraph writing by three secondary students with disabilities and writing difficulties. The intervention consisted of one-on-one explicit instruction in persuasive writing and the use of a technology-based graphic organizer (TBGO) with embedded strategies and supports. Dependent variables included the number of sentences and overall holistic writing quality. The results were mixed. Two adolescents with the primary diagnosis of learning disabilities improved their writing performance when using the TBGO and remained above baseline levels when the TBGO was removed. One more participant diagnosed with autism demonstrated modest changes in the quantity and quality of his writing. Students reported positive perceptions of the TBGO indicating a socially valid intervention. Implications, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.