Tell Tale Game: Randomized Prompts for Individual and Collaborative Writing Tasks  

Oleh:

Natarina, Ari ; Savitri, Putu Weddha

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 902-908.
Topik: narrative; writing; Tell Tale game; Google Docs
Fulltext: hal 902.pdf (16.58MB)

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In order to pique students’ interest in writing, teachers should start with a genre that is most familiar to the students, narrative writing. Using games as prompts for narrative writing will help motivate and encourage the students to participate in the classroom. In this paper, we describe two ideas for using Tell Tale family card games (products from Blue Orange Games) in improving narrative writing skills for ESL/EFL students. First, we explore how the Tell Tale game can be used for individual writing task. Second, we consider the combination of the Tell Tale game with Google Docs in collaborative writing task. The Tell Tale family card game combines all of these elements together: pictures, story-telling, think-aloud, and the motivation to write the best story in order to win the game. It consists of 60 cards illustrated with daily life objects and characters. By drawing illustrated cards randomly from the pile, the students will have the opportunity to be creative in order to make the story coherent and cohesive. In collaborative writing task, the students can pair up and create a narrative essay with their partner using Google Docs. Google Docs can be used by the students to edit the essay together at the same time. Moreover, Google Docs is connected to Google Drive, Gmail accounts, and Google hangout; therefore, it is good to be used for collaborative work, for example: talking about changes in the plot through chatting or video conference while writing the essay

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