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Crafting Effective Captions: Strategies for Enhancing Students’ Engagement and Writing Skill Sri Wardani
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)
Publisher : UMBanjarmasin

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v5i1.682

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This research aims to investigate students' proficiency in writing skills through the utilization of photographs as writing prompts (captions). The study focuses on analyzing the outcomes of students' caption writing using a four-step writing process, namely drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. The assessment involved a caption writing test to evaluate students' progress, supplemented by a questionnaire to gather additional data. The participants consisted of 32 students from XII MIPA 4 of SMA N 1 Malang. Following one cycle of the teaching and learning process, the findings of this research demonstrate that the implementation of the four-step writing process in caption writing enhances students' writing skills and fosters greater student engagement. Specifically, 26 out of the 32 students achieved a score of 75 or higher. The result of sample paired test also shows there is significant difference between before and after the interviention. Consequently, employing the process of caption writing proves to be effective in improving students' writing abilities and promoting increased student engagement.
USING NEWSPAPER IN THE TEACHING OF WRITING NEWS ITEM Sri Wardani
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 1 (2019)
Publisher : UMBanjarmasin

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i1.1057

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Writing, one of productive skills, is considered difficult that is why the students get difficulties in getting ideas and arranging them in coherent and cohesive paragraphs; besides that they have lack of vocabularies to express their ideas. This fact is the contrary to the Senior High School Curriculum which states that writing is one of the productive skills has to be covered, such as News Item text. The purpose of this paper is to find out how well newspapers give contribution in teaching News Item text. The design of the research is classroom action research. There were 27 students participated in this research. Test and observation are two main instruments. The results show that using newspaper can improve students’ ability in writing news item text. The data collected from observation indicated that the students were active during the lesson.