Abstract
Proverbs are believed to have an important role in language teaching as a part of obtaining cultural knowledge, metaphorical understanding, and communicative competence. They have been considered an important part of the fostering of pupils, as they prompt moral values and present common behavior. In 2013 curriculum enacted for senior high school students in Indonesia, the proverb is one of the main materials studied in English subject. This paper aims at presenting how transforming proverbs to pictures and paragraph provides alternative method to help the students understand the meaning as well as to enhance their writing skills. To do this aim, three general phases were applied, namely before the instruction phase, during the instruction phase, and after the instruction phase. The result shows that transforming proverbs to pictures and paragraphs helps the students to convey the culture and wisdom. Moreover, it provides students with a rich source of vocabulary. It also gives them an opportunity of making comparisons between their own proverbs and the English ones, thus broadening their knowledge of the world. Finally, it helps students to write in English in a more natural, native-like way using the fixed expression.
Highlights
Learning a language means learning a culture
They were given sufficient explanation on the teaching goals and on guidelines about what to accomplished in two weeks, the students participated in 3P (Proverbs-Picture-Paragraph) learning method
The proposed learning activities in this paper is expected to be able to overcome some if not all writing anxiety possessed by the students. 4.2 Proverb to Picture
Summary
Learning a language means learning a culture. Proverbs are a part of every language as well as every culture. Proverbs have been used to spread knowledge, wisdom and truths about life from ancient times up until now. They have been considered an important part of the fostering of children, as they signal moral values and exhort common behavior (Hanzén, 2007). When it comes to foreign language learning, proverbs play a role in the teaching as a part of cultural and metaphorical learning. Use of proverbs as part of formulaic language, can enable fluent and natural language production and teaching proverbs can help to produce language more fluently and naturally which can in turn increase motivation (Porto, 1998 in Niasti & Shahmoradi, 2016)
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