Flip Book Based Electronic Module As Learning Needs To Write Adversiting Texts For Junior High School Students

This research is a stage in the development of an electronic module for writing flip book-based advertising texts for junior high schools. This study aims to describe the analysis of students' needs in writing advertising texts. The research method used is a survey method. The data collection technique in this study was a questionnaire. This study uses a Likert scale to measure students' attitudes, opinions, and or perceptions of the developed electronic module. This study used a questionnaire that was made in the form of a checklist with an assessment range of 1 to 5. The questionnaire that was prepared was addressed to students in four SMP/MTs equivalent in Bengkalis district. This sampling technique is based on the sampling quota determined by the researcher. The data analysis technique is done by changing the category value into an assessment score and analyzing the score. The results showed that 66.5% of students had difficulty understanding advertising text material and 80.1% of students wanted advertising text writing material to be delivered with interesting, interactive, and innovative learning media, and 87.1% of students wanted advertising text writing learning media. which makes it easier for them to learn independently. This shows the need to develop an electronic module for writing flip book-based advertising text.

Modified Digital Comics: An Alternative Way for Enhancing Students Narrative Text Writing Ability

One of the countries in the world with the most comic readers is Indonesia. Based on Detik.com, Indonesia as the biggest southeast comic market has more than 6 million active users. This phenomenon becomes an opportunity for applying this media in the classroom. The purposes of this study are to find out the effect of modified digital comic as an alternative way in improving the students’ ability in writing narrative text and what aspect of writing which is influenced by this media. This research used quantitative approach and was conducted to 29 students. For collecting the data, the researcher administered the writing test. This study showed that there was a significant improvement of students who have low proficiency in the English language in writing narrative text after using modified digital comics as a language-learning media. However, the teacher perceived the use of modified digital comics in the classroom as time consuming and impractical. Keywords: modified digital comic, narrative text, writing ability.

SELF-WRITING IN THE DIMENSION OF EVERYDAY LIFE: DYNAMICS, CHALLENGES, PERSPECTIVES

The article presents a study of the everyday life discourse in writing about the Self of a fictional subject. It seems obvious that involvement of self-writing in everyday practice calls into question the power of self-writing in the context of everyday life for the self-knowledge of the individual. The purpose of this scientific research is to debunk this illusion and explain the connection between the everyday life and self-writing. It transforms the practice of incorporating one’s own «I» in writing into the dimension of constructing the subject’s identity. There are no works on this topic in modern literary criticism and this fact also indicates the relevance and novelty of the research that is unfolding in the following article. Nowadays, the history of everyday life is booming. It is evidenced by a whole array of scientific papers on this issue. The study of self-writing in the dimension of everyday life appeals to the semiotic approach of Y.M. Lotman and G. Knabe for the analysis of the sign-symbolic nature of everyday life, to the sociological studies of A. Schutz, P. Berger and T. Lukman to identify the ways of constructing everyday life as reality or as a «life world», to the works of V.D.Leleko in the field of aesthetics and culturology of everyday life. The works of the philosophical and anthropological school serve the basis for the research. Particular attention is given to the text-letter of the Enlightenment. The protagonists of the Enlightenment Age invest the issues of everyday life in the work of writing that is a daily practice in the XVIII century. Due to its characteristics, the sphere of everyday life is a measure of self-knowledge and self-affirmation of the individual that was first artistically embodied by enlightened characters. The study shows that everyday life asa strong ground for self-affirmation of the subject was discovered with the help of the personal writing in the novel of the XVIII century, but this discovery became a lost testament to the text-writing of the Enlightenment. Changing the picture of everyday life under the influence of new technologies does not interfere with the text-writing. In the dynamic picture of everyday life offered to us by the 21st century, writing about the Self of a fictional subject opens up new facets of the power of everyday life discourse for the anthropological laboratory of literature. The study is illustrated by thesuch texts as: «Robinson Crusoe» by D.Defoe, «Nun» by D. Diderot, «Memoirs of two young wives» by O. de Balzac, «Poison of Love» by E.-E. Schmitt, «Self-portrait of the radiator» by K. Boben.

Psychology of text writing: truths and delusions

Review of the book by E. Peltek "Write - Don't Write: A Psychological Guide for Authors on Working with Text and Oneself". Moscow: Alpina Publisher, 2021

AESTHETIC ASPECT OF EMOTIVENESS OF POETIC TEXT

The study looks for ways of analyzing the aesthetic aspect of emotiveness in a poem. To accomplish the aim, the author undertakes an attempt to study the essence of the image of aesthetic feeling. Since a poetic text appears to be a complex unity of notional, emotive, and aesthetic codes, the methods of cognitive analysis are employed to formalize deep cognitive and emotive constructs that give rise to aesthetic senses within a poetic text. The study relies on the statement that an image of aesthetic feeling has an emergent nature which means that it appears in the process of poetic text writing as a result of a creative impulse of the author (O. Mandelstam). In the study, the image of aesthetic feeling is regarded as an emotive image of the highest level. On the one hand, it is directed at some well-established aesthetic categories, and on the other, it reveals the author’s attitude to them which is manifested through a sophisticated network of images. A step-by-step analysis of Shel Silverstine’s poem “A Light in the Attic” has been suggested to illustrate a possible way of uncovering image(s) of aesthetic feelings inscribed in the text.

Problem-Based Learning Model with Video Media to Improve Writing Skills

Students are less interested in writing because teachers tend to use textbooks as the only medium in learning. This has an impact on students' low writing skills. The purpose of this study is to analyze the problem-based learning model assisted by video learning. to improve critical response text writing skills. This type of research is classroom action research. This study follows the stages of classroom action research, each cycle consisting of four stages, namely planning, action, observation, and reflection. The subjects of this research were 28 students of class IX. Methods The methods used to collect data are observation, interviews, and tests. The instruments used to collect data are questionnaires and test sheets. The data analysis used in this research is descriptive qualitative and quantitative descriptive analysis. The results showed that the application of the problem-based learning model assisted by video media could improve students' critical response text writing skills. The increase in the average score of critical response text writing skills is 11, from an average of 80 to 91. So, learning can be said to be successful because overall, students are complete. Students also gave a very positive response in participating in learning to write critical response texts by applying a problem-based learning model assisted by video media with a score of 22.89.

What Really Works in Telecollaborative Pedagogy? A Case Study of an Algerian-Moldovan Project

This chapter presents and discusses an international telecollaborative text-writing and translation project conducted during the second semester of a translation course in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The participants were non-native intermediate students of French from universities in Algeria and Moldova. This paper firstly provides theoretical background on telecollaboration and its benefits for learners from different geographical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Secondly, it analyses the challenges of telecollaborating via asynchronous and exolingual communication (email). To do this, I analyse student perspectives on the efficacy of the approach in the form of reports administered before and after the tellecollaborations. The chapter concludes that telecollaboration between learners from different backgrounds is difficult, but can succeed and remains an opportunity to develop linguistic, cultural and digital skills along with intercultural awareness. In the conclusions I give an overall evaluation of the case study, and suggestions for a future telecollaborative work.

THE INFLUENCE OF RUNNING DICTATION METHOD ON STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY

This research was intended to find out whether or not there was a significant influence of running dictation on students’ descriptive text writing ability and to find out students’ responses toward running dictation method used for improving students in writing descriptive text. The research methodology was a quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was the tenth-grade students during the first semester of SMA Negeri 1 Jalan Cagak. The data from pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using SPSS 22.00. The data from questionnaires were analyzed by using a Likert Scale. The computation results of Independent Sample t-test it was obtained that Sig = 0.006 and α = 0.05. It means Ha is accepted because Sig < α = 0.05. It can be concluded there is a significant influence of running dictation method on students’ descriptive text writing ability. Furthermore, the results of questionnaires showed that most of the students (80%) gave positive responses toward running dictation method in writing descriptive text. It can be put forward that Running Dictation is effectively used for teaching writing descriptive text, the students are motivated, enjoyable to learn and their interest through English learning especially writing is rising.

Error Analysis of Using Simple Present Tense on Students’ Descriptive Text Writing

The purpose of the research is to find out the types of error which made by the ninth graders in writing descriptive text using simple present tense at SMPIT Nurul Ihsan. The number of the students is 27 students. This research uses qualitative descriptive as the approach. The researcher directly did the survey and conducted a written test to the students write English descriptive text. The result of the study shows that there are 77 errors from all students’ compositions. The most error made is misformation with the percentage 49,35%. Followed misordering with the percentage 20,78%, then addition with the percentage 18,18%, and the least error made is omission with the percentage is 11,69%. Most students made wrong sentence in misformation category. The cause of that is the interference from mother language or L1. It makes them influenced the way they think about the language they are learning. When they compose a text in English, they follow the rule of L2. Consequently, they should be guided more so that they could understand about simple present tense.