Dialogue Journal Writing in Building Students’ Awareness on Local Wisdom and English Writing Skill

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10.2991/icclas-18.2019.51How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Dialogue journal writing, awareness, local wisdom, writing skill

Abstract

Developing English communicative competence while integrating ideal characters as good Indonesians can be applied to English language teaching. The students can use English in foreign ways to communicate leading them without disregarding their local norms, values, and cultures. One of way is applying communicative teaching strategies. One of teaching strategy that can be applied in language teaching is Dialogue Journal Writing. This paper discusses the use of dialogue journal writing in teaching writing skill for Imam Bonjol State Islamic University students in the academic year 2017/2018. The result of the research showed that Dialogue Journal Writing could help the students to be better in mastering writing components and developing ideas. In addition, inserting local wisdom concept through narrative text especially the legends contributed the building of their awareness on their culture and helped the students to be better writers which in turn the lecturers were able to lead them to develop ideas in their writing. It implies that Dialogue Journal Writing was one of interesting teaching writing strategies for a brighter future of English teaching and learning in Indonesia’s multilingual society.

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© 2019, 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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