Students Discourse Competence in Written Language: How Problematic?  

Oleh:

Syarif, Hermawati

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 555-562.
Topik: discourse competence; text design; thematic organization; register; cohesion and coherence
Fulltext: hal 555.pdf (16.58MB)

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The paper aims to discuss the problematic discourse elements on students’ sentences on their written text and how they influence students’ comprehension in writing it. All the data obtained from students’ writing were analyzed and discussed based on the determined parameters. The findings show that using discourse components, namely,text design,thematic organization, cohesion and coherence, as well as register appear with the problems in their written language production. As a matter of fact, English education students have the problems with lack of background knowledge and language mastery.Thoseproblems influence very much their comprehension about the topics being written. Due to their lack discourse competence, students could not write the argumentative text well.

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