Writing Descriptive Text to Activate Learners’ Language and Cultural Schema

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10.2991/assehr.k.201017.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

schema, descriptive text writing, language, culture, literacy

Abstract

This paper aims at describing the implementation and the effect of writing descriptive text which activates students’ schemata of language and culture. This paper employed a qualitative research design with a classroom action research approach. This paper took college students of STKIP PGRI Jombang Batch 2018 as research subjects. The data of this research was in the form of data in the implementation and results of writing descriptive text which activates student’s language and cultural schemata. This results of this research show that (1) the implementation of descriptive text writing activates college students’ language and cultural schemata. (2) The improvement of descriptive text writing among college students is in the aspects of A) content aspect, such as 1) cohesion, 2) accuracy, 3) details, and 4) comprehensiveness, and B) languages aspect, such as 1) vocabulary, 2) word choice, 3) punctuation, 4) spelling, 5) capital letters, 6) syllabification, and 7) preposition.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Susi Darihastining
AU  - Heny Sulistyowati
AU  - Aang Fatihul Islam
AU  - Q Umi Nur
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/20
TI  - Writing Descriptive Text to Activate Learners’ Language and Cultural Schema
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 713
EP  - 716
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201017.157
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201017.157
ID  - Darihastining2020
ER  -