scholarly journals The effect of using word processor in teaching writing skill among secondary students in schools in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 272-278
Author(s):  
Aladwan Yaser
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Word Processor ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Skill

scholarly journals Developing Students’ Writing Skill through Peer and Teacher Correction: An Action Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Sapkota
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Progress Test ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Correction Technique ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Post Test

Writing is a form of an art and integral part of language learning. The present study concerns with development of writing skills through peer and teacher correction technique. As an action research in nature, the research aimed to test the progress of the students while writing an essay. After the analysis of data collected through test items, it was seen improvement in students writing in post test than in pre-test. The students (Ss1-Ss10) were found using the words in an increased order and grammatically correct sentences in their writing in each test made and committed less grammatical errors in post test than in pre and progress test. Regarding mechanics of writing, their writing was found systematic in case of punctuation, proper use of paragraphs, in coherence and cohesion in writing. The peer correction and teacher correction technique was found productive in teaching writing through action research as a whole. Journal of NELTA, Vol. 17 No. 1-2, December 2012, Page 70-82 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v17i1-2.8094

scholarly journals Effects of Pop Culture for Improving Student-Teachers’ Writing Skill (A Case Study at Galuh University)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ratnawati Ratnawati
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Writing Skill

Writing, one of the four skills which have to be taught by educators in language learning. Starting from classroom observation implied that students confronted the difficulties in writing involving generating ideas, organizing words, and making compositions. This study supposes to explore some effects of pop culture as authentic materials for English language teaching in improving students’ writing skill. Due to pop culture relates to students’ life and experience, it is considered to be a stimulus for gaining students’ ideas, information, motivation, and interest in teaching writing. The students of secondary school were involved in this study and descriptive case study was employed to observe the importance of pop culture in writing class. Also, questionnaires and students’ works are the instruments to measure its effects. Both students’ works and result of the questionnaires pointed out that significantly improvement obtained after applying pop culture. In line with findings, it can be said that pop cultures have significant effects toward students’ writing skill. So, educators need to apply pop culture as their choices in future planning lesson.

scholarly journals Peer Feedback Technique in Teaching Writing Skill of the Third Semester Students of IAIN Parepare

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Magdahalena Magdahalena ◽  
Rasmah Nursira
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
The Third ◽  
Writing Skill

Writing is still considered as a difficult skill in language learning by Indonesian students. For that reason, it is urgent for teacher to seek for interesting ways to teach writing in the classroom. This study examines the effectiveness of  the use of peer feedback technique to improve students’ skill in writing descriptive paragraph. Some studies have proved the effectiveness of the technique to improve students’ writing skill. The study employs experimental research in which one class of 20 students is  taught to write narrative paragraph and correct their paragraph using peer feedback technique. The result of the study shows that the technique improves the students writing skill in narrative writing, however the scores are not significant. This suggests that there is a factor that affects the result of the teaching using peer feedback, and it is the less time of treatment which is indicated as the factor.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ RESPONSES TOWARD THINK TALK WRITE STRATEGY IN TEACHING WRITING

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 568
Author(s):  
Ika Yulia Anggraeni ◽  
Yanuarti Apsari
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Writing skill is one of the skills that is difficult to learn because we have to know the correct sentence composition and also what we hear must be in accordance with what we write and therefore this skill is very important to learn. The objective of the research is to identify the sudents’ responses toward think talk write (TTW) strategy in teacihng writing skill. The research used descriptive qualitative design. The respondents of this research were eighth grade students of SMP Pasundan 1 Cimahi. The instrument of this research was questionnaire. The result of data analysis shows that students gave positive responses toward TTW strategy. The respondents agree that TTW strategy can increase students’ motivation, TTW Strategy can help students in improving their writing skill and TTW strategy can make teaching and learning process interesting. Keywords:  Writing, Think Talk Write (TTW) Strategy, Student’s Responses  

scholarly journals THE USE OF FLASHCARDS FOR TEACHING WRITING TO ENGLISH YOUNG LEARNERS (EYL)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Paramita Kusumawardhani
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
Classroom Action Research

<p>The aims of this research are to know about the use of flashcards to improve the English Young Learners’ writing skills. English has four skills to be learned; they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and writing skill is the most difficult skill to be taught and learnt. Flashcards are one of the ways to improve the learners’ skill, especially EYL writing skill. The participants of this research are English Young Learners (EYL) in of the English Course at Gading Serpong, Tangerang. Classroom Action Research (CAR) was used as the method of the research and the English Young Learners’ (EYL) story paper are used as the instruments of the research. The results of the research are: (1) Most learners were excited when they are asked to see the colorful flashcard; (2) Learners who have good writing skill could make the story by completing the missing words and answer the questions then arrange the answer sentences well and (3) Learners who are not really master in writing, got some difficulties not only in completing the missing words but also answering then arranging the answer sentences well.</p>

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING EXAMPLE NON-EXAMPLE STRATEGY AT GRADE X OF VOCATIONAL MADRASAH ALIYAH ADZQIA BELIMBING

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Puspa Gundary ◽  
Aprizon Aprizon
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Positive Results

The purposes of this research were to find out whether example non-example strategy can improve the students’ writing skill on descriptive, and to find out what factors influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill in writing descriptive text. This research was Classroom Action Research. This research was conducted in two cycles, which each cycle had three meetings. It was conducted from August 1st until August 31th.The researcher gathered the data in each cycles from observation checklist, field notes, interviews, and writing test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that Example non-example strategy was able to improve the students’ writing skill of descriptive text through the process of comprehending the students, and assisting the students while they were writing. As the results, the students could improve their writing skill which involved the improvement of mean score of writing indicators; vocabulary, content/ideas, and organization. Moreover, it could be seen from the improvement of their mean score of basic score (56), test I (h62.5), and test II (79.4). Furthermore, the factors that influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill involved materials, media, and learning strategy. To sum up, the implementation of Example non-example strategy in teaching writing of descriptive text could provide positive results on their writing skill

Teaching Writing with a Word Processor, Grades 7-13

1986 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Patricia P. Kelly ◽  
Beatrice Naff ◽  
Edgar H. Thompson ◽  
Dawn Rodrigues ◽  
Raymond J. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Word Processor ◽  
Teaching Writing

scholarly journals THE APPLICATION OF THINK-TALK-WRITE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA SANTO YOSEPH MEDAN STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Tio Devianta br Sembiring ◽  
Novalina Sembiring ◽  
Fiber Yun A. Ginting
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Learning Behavior ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Better Than

The aim of this study is to find whether Think – Talk – Write Strategy works effectively on improving the tenth grade students’ achievement in writing recount texts and to know the students’ responses after being taught by using Think – Talk – Write Strategy . in order to  achieve the objectives of study, a classroom action research was designed and carried out in this study. The subjects of this study were 32 students of class X- MIA2  OF SMA Santo Yoseph Medan in academic year 2018/2019. Test, observation sheet, and field notes were used as a instruments for collecting data. The results of the study showed significant improvement of the students’ skill in writing. It is proved by the students’ mean score of each test: pre-test was 57,5%, formative test was 67,22% and post-test  was 83,88% . In addition, the, the analysis result of the observation sheet and field notes showed Think – Talk – Write Strategy channge the students’ learning behavior being better than before. They were more enthusiastic during the teaching learning process in each cycle. The analysis result of questionnaire showed that Think – Talk – Write Strategy was useful to most of students to improve their learnig interest in writing recount text. Based on the results of those study instruments, it can be concluded that Think – Talk – Write Strategy as learning strategy gives the improvement to students’ skill in writing recount text. It is recommended for English teacher to apply Think – Talk – Write Strategy in teaching writing skill in order to improve students’ skill in writing expecially recount text. 

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