Sabtu, 04 Mei 2019

Review of The Second Journal part 1

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Hello guys, how was your day? Today, I will give you review about the second journal.

Title: USING A DIALOGUE JOURNAL TO DEVELOP WRITING SKILLS
Authors: Zulfadli A. Aziz and Nina Magdalena
Article Info: ENGLISH EDUCATION JOURNAL (EEJ), 7(4), 416-432, October 2016

This Journal has seven part that are Abstract, Introduction, Review of Literature, Method, Research Results and Discussion, Conclusion, and References.
This journal have purpose to describe the implementation of dialogue journals in developing the writing skills of young learners.

1️⃣ Introduction
In the background of this journal, there are problems regarding writing pedagogy that students face that are lack of vocabulary and grammatical knowledge. It means that students need new methods to solve this problems. The authors proposes the use of dialogue journals as one alternative for solving these problems.

2️⃣ Review of Literature
   ▫️ Writing
Writing is a result of individual reflections on past experiences or visions of the future. In writing, the writer combines his previous knowledge through complicated mental processes to develop new ideas and concepts.
   ▫️Young Learners
The young learners that are discussing here are children in the early stage of their schooling, up to the age of 13 or 14 (Brumfit, et al., 1991). These years are known as a critical period. A critical period hypothesis emphasizes that language may be acquired more easily by children then since their brains are still capable of using the mechanisms that assist in first language acquisition.
   ▫️Teaching Young Learners
Teacher is one of scaffolder that can assist and guide children in their learning. Therefore teachers should egange with students to construct their knowledge. The teachers should make classroom activities for children that enjoyable, fun and full of meaningful practice.
   ▫️Dialogue Journals
A dialogue journal is a written conversation performed between a student and a teacher. Each student can write openly to their teacher just like in a letter. Then, the teacher will provide responses and comments regarding these writings.
   ▫️Dialogue Journals in Practice
First, the teacher gives brief instruction about dialogue journals. Secondly, students are required to write about a topic that they themselves choose. Thirdly, the teacher will respond to the student’s writing. Fourthly, each student will make revisions to her own writing based on the teacher’s responses and
comments and will write more about that topic or another topic.
   ▫️Teaching Vocabulary for Writing
There are two way to teach vocabulary for writing including deductive and inductive.
   ▫️Teaching Grammar for Writing
This is explained that there are procedures for improving grammar or linguistic through deductive and inductive approach.

3️⃣ Method
Research Design
This Dialogue Journal Writing (DJW) study used library research namely searching literature sources such as textbooks, notes or results from previous research (Hasan, 2011: 11). Thus, the author collected data from previous researchers regarding the use of dialogue journals. Then she formulated generalizations about similar problems namely whether dialogue journals can improve the ability of young learners writing skills.


That's all review about the second journal, I will continue in the next blog.
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