Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Terapan
Vol 6 No 1 (2020): April 2020

Improving Engineering Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text Using GBA

Sri Hastuti - (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Nov 2020

Abstract

Writing is one of the English skills needed by engineering students to express their knowledge and skill relating to their major. Based on the researcher’s teaching experience, students still have low ability in writing. In this research, the researcher made an effort to improve their descriptive writing text in an engineering context. The aim was to increase their ability to make descriptive text using Genre Based Approach. The research was carried out in the Road and Bridge Planning Study Program in the Civil Engineering Department of a Polytechnic in Indonesia. The sample included the students of the study program. The design of the research was the Pre Test-Post Test Design. The result shows that the students’ writing ability can be increased by applying the GBA teaching procedure with adjustment to their major and level of English capability. This strategy can be used as an alternative to improve students’ ability to make descriptive texts in an engineering context.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

inggris

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Terapan covers the research on Applied English in  English Language Teaching, English Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Discourse Analysis (DA), Digital Literacy, Information ...