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LEARNERS’ PRE WRITING ACTIVITY USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

Widyaningrum, Agnes (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jul 2020

Abstract

English learners who learn EFL to communicate in spoken and written way sometimes meet obstacles inorganizing their ideas. Ideas are not well organized due to different logical thinking which indicate that Indonesianpeople tend to use their circular thinking in saying and writing something. On the contrary, English people areknown from their straightforward thinking and saying. Those two things belong to culture in communication.As English learners, they have to find ways how to help them organize their ideas and one of the simpleways is by using graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is available in the internet in various designs but theimportant thing is it is used as the template for students to arrange their ideas before writing or speaking. Whythey have to do this? It is because the graphic organizer means saying something using graphic or arranging ideasinto an organizer. It is useful in pre writing activity for English learners.This study belongs to descriptive study which means that the researchers want to find out the phenomenonin using graphic organizer in writing class for the third semester students of FBIB evening program of EnglishLiterature Department. The qualitative data are gathered from the questionnaires distributed by the lecturer ofAdvanced Writing Class to be analyzed in order to find out the learners’ response from using the graphic organizerin writing class. The result shows that there is positive response in using graphic organizer to help English learnerswrite better.

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