Activate Students’ Prior Knowledge in Writing by Implementingsandwich Graphic Organizer  

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Lestari, Sri

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 326-331.
Topik: essay writing; sandwich graphic organizer; classroom action research
Fulltext: hal 326.pdf (16.58MB)

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Sandwich graphic organizer is a media to help students in writing essay. This media used to help students in process of prewriting, especially outlining in brainstorming students’ idea or in activating students’ prior knowledge(Mc Knight 2010: 1). This research is aimed at finding out whether: (1) using sandwich graphic organizer can activate students’ prior knowledge and improved students’ ability in writing essay, (2) To find out how sandwich graphic organizer should be applied in writing class.The research was conducted in IKIP PGRI Madiun. The population was the second semester students of English Department IKIP PGRI Madiun. The research belongs to classroom action research conducted in two cycles. The quantitative data were obtained from writing assessments, while the qualitative data were collected by conducting observation, and interview. The quantitative data were then analyzed by employing descriptive statistic, while the qualitative data were analyzed by using constant comparative method. The findings can be concluded that (1) the implementation of sandwich graphic organizer is succesfully enhance students ability in writing (2) the lecturer give clear explanation how to use sandwich graphic organizer then give chance for students to write their outline on that graphic.Using sandwich graphic organizer as the media of teaching is recommended to build students’ enthusiasm in learning English, particularly to enhance their writing ability.

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