Abstract
Sentence writing is inevitably needed in order to be able to write a longer text because the mastery of writing various types of sentences will facilitate writers to produce a good writing style. However, writing accurate sentences constitute problems for many EFL learners. One way to solve the problems is finding out a teaching strategy that can help the students to learn sentence writing more effectively. This study is an attempt to develop a strategy to teach sentence writing, aiming at knowing the effectiveness of text analysis to enhance the students’ competence to write accurate sentences. An experiment was done in a classroom context by comparing the sentence writing accuracy of the students taught with a teaching strategy covering text analysis (experimental group) and that of the students taught with a teaching strategy without text analysis (control group). The study revealed that there is significant difference between the sentence writing accuracy of the students in the experimental group and that of the students in the control group. The students of the experimental group outperformed those of the control group. It means that text analysis is effective to develop EFL students’ sentence writing accuracy. This is because text analysis is one way to learn grammar; it also strengthens the concept the students have learned. Based on this conclusion, it is suggested that a writing teacher ask the students to do text analysis in teaching sentence writing.
Highlights
The idea that being able to write well is a talent that one either has or doesn’t have is untrue
An experiment was done in a classroom context by comparing the sentence writing accuracy of the students taught with a teaching strategy covering text analysis and that of the students taught with a teaching strategy without text analysis
The problem to be solved in this research is “To what extent can text analysis enhance the EFL students’ sentence writing accuracy?” Based on this research question, the null hypothesis of this study is formulated as follows: “there is no significant difference between the sentence writing accuracy of the students taught with teaching writing strategy covering text analysis and that of the students taught with teaching writing strategy without text analysis.”
Summary
The idea that being able to write well is a talent that one either has or doesn’t have is untrue. We can write coherently if we are willing to learn some strategies and practice them. The mastery of sentence writing is a stepping stone to achieve the competence of composing a longer text which will lead to the students’ literacy. The importance of English writing is emphasized by Huan (2011) stating that English writing competence is crucial since English has become the language of global communication. Improving students’ writing accuracy and proficiency has become an important thing in English teaching recently. Effective sentence writing is very challenging to teach. Teachers continue struggling to find effective ways to teach sentence writing
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