Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill
One of the most important skills in English is writing. The writing skill allows the students to express and investigate ideas, thoughts, and beliefs and make them apparent and obvious. Writing encourages writers to think, learn and communicate. Unfortunately, most of the students were difficult and...
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description | One of the most important skills in English is writing. The writing skill allows the students to express and investigate ideas, thoughts, and beliefs and make them apparent and obvious. Writing encourages writers to think, learn and communicate. Unfortunately, most of the students were difficult and get bored in writing activities. They need some strategies to make easier when they do writing task. Semantic mapping is one of good ways for writing task. It helps students to get idea and improve it into sentences and paragraphs.The purpose of the research is to know whether semantic mapping strategy is able to improve writing skill. This study focuses on students' positive response on semantic mapping strategy in English writing skill. The instrument of this study is using questionnaire which is distributed to the students of second semester in English Department at an Indonesian private university which consisted of 30 students. The result of this study indicates that 25 % of students get easier in learning writing task and 75 % are motivated to have a good writing by using semantic mapping strategy. |
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spelling | doaj.art-da9c0e84fcd947f4bcc8ea3e7f89d8fe2022-12-22T02:42:58ZengUniversitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoJEES (Journal of English Educators Society)2503-34922018-10-013218919610.21070/jees.v3i2.1560914Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing SkillUlfa Wulan Agustina0Luluk Choirun Nisak Nur1Universitas KH.A. Wahab Hasbullah JombangUniversitas KH.A. Wahab Hasbullah JombangOne of the most important skills in English is writing. The writing skill allows the students to express and investigate ideas, thoughts, and beliefs and make them apparent and obvious. Writing encourages writers to think, learn and communicate. Unfortunately, most of the students were difficult and get bored in writing activities. They need some strategies to make easier when they do writing task. Semantic mapping is one of good ways for writing task. It helps students to get idea and improve it into sentences and paragraphs.The purpose of the research is to know whether semantic mapping strategy is able to improve writing skill. This study focuses on students' positive response on semantic mapping strategy in English writing skill. The instrument of this study is using questionnaire which is distributed to the students of second semester in English Department at an Indonesian private university which consisted of 30 students. The result of this study indicates that 25 % of students get easier in learning writing task and 75 % are motivated to have a good writing by using semantic mapping strategy.http://ojs.umsida.ac.id/index.php/jees/article/view/1560semantic mappingstudents responsewriting |
spellingShingle | Ulfa Wulan Agustina Luluk Choirun Nisak Nur Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill JEES (Journal of English Educators Society) semantic mapping students response writing |
title | Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill |
title_full | Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill |
title_fullStr | Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill |
title_full_unstemmed | Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill |
title_short | Students Positive Response on Semantic Mapping Strategy in English Writing Skill |
title_sort | students positive response on semantic mapping strategy in english writing skill |
topic | semantic mapping students response writing |
url | http://ojs.umsida.ac.id/index.php/jees/article/view/1560 |
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