Teaching Writing

WRITING SHORT STORY USING NARRATIVE APPROACHBy HAMIDDIN             ABSTRACTNarrative approach is basic technique in preparing the students are able to write a narration paragraph. Narrative is related to tell a story. In teaching writing in literature classroom, the teacher uses narrative approach to write a short story. Besides teaching writing paragraph, the teacher also teaches literature aspects especially short story aspects. Theoretically, this...

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Teaching Poetry for English Students of Indonesia

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMPREHENSION OF POEMS USING TWO STAY-TWO STRAY STRATEGY(A Cooperative Learning Approach) Hamiddin(a lecturer of English Department of FKIP Unisma, email: ibnu_syam@yahoo.com) AbstractThe study is directed to improve students’ comprehension of poems using the Two Stay-Two Stray strategy. The subject of this study is 23 students of the sixth semester of English department of FKIP at Islamic University of Malang. This study uses collaborative action research design which consists of four...

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Syllabus for Introduction to Literature

Syllabus for Introduction to Literature(for Indonesia Students, University Level)I. INTRODUCTION The interest to learn English for Indonesian people becomes greater than before. English is a foreign language has been taught in every levels of education in Indonesia such as: elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, and university level. Learning English as foreign language both English skill and English knowledge provides some advantages for the students. The students who learn English skills, the students are expected to be able...

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