Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)

Students’ Preferences and Their Needs of Reading in Writing Class

Authors
Yenni Rozimela, Desvalini Anwar, Ririn Ovilia, Ainul Addinna
Corresponding Author
Yenni Rozimela
Available Online 26 March 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.052How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Reading-based Writing, Writing Skill
Abstract

Many studies have claimed that one’s ability in writing is affected significantly by his or her interest in reading. This means that the more one reads, the better one can usually write. Despite its importance, reading activities in class, however, are not yet implemented in ways that can facilitate and help students find ideas more easily and write well. Hence, this study is aimed at finding out the students’ perception and preferences about their writing need. A questionnaire was distributed to 137 sophomore students in a university in Padang. The questionnaire is mainly concerned with activities in pre-writing, whilst-writing and post-writing stages. Data analysis reveals that 98.5% students agree that they need to do some pre-reading to get more information about the topic they will write. In whilst-writing stage, the data shows that the students strongly prefer collaborative writing to individual writing. Lastly, it is no doubt that feedback from both peers and teachers are considered advantageous; yet, direct corrective feedback from teachers is more preferred by more than 70% students. These results hopefully give insights into how appropriate method and strategy should be implemented in teaching writing.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 March 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-358-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210325.052How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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