Proceedings of the International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2020)

Writing Descriptive Text to Activate Learners’ Language and Cultural Schema

Authors
Susi Darihastining, Heny Sulistyowati, Aang Fatihul Islam, Q Umi Nur
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Susi Darihastining
Available Online 20 October 2020.
DOI
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
20 October 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-253-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201017.157How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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