Graphic Organizers for Students’ Descriptive and Narrative Writing

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201201.162How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Writing, Graphic organizer, Learning media, Narrative composition

Abstract

Writing is one of skills that must be mastered by learners to face the globalized world that they will be productive and creative. It is classroom research design since the purpose of this study was to investigate the students’ writing ability. It was conducted in one of paragraph writing classes in English Education Department of UNESA. There were 16 participants who joined in this class. The instruments were observation check list and rubrics for assessing writing. During the data collection, graphic organizers were used to help students in the process of writing. The findings showed that graphic organizers can improve students’ writing ability especially in descriptive and narrative texts. Most of the students reached good score in their writings. In brief, it is recommended for EFL teachers to use attractive graphic organizers as media in the process of teaching English to increase the students’ abilities in writing.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anis Trisusana
AU  - Arik Susanti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - Graphic Organizers for Students’ Descriptive and Narrative Writing
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 961
EP  - 966
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.162
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.162
ID  - Trisusana2020
ER  -