The Zine Project - Improving Students’ Skill and Creativity in Writing in English

Nina Setyaningsih, Valentina Widya Suryaningtyas, Anisa Larassati

2017

Abstract

The young people’s low of interest in reading may be one of the causes of their difficulties in constructing texts in the writing class. Students still face problems in finding or even organizing ideas. This research explores how to develop the students’ skills in writing five genres in English by applying a genre-based approach and how to improve students’ creativity by creating a zine as the final project. According to Martin (2009), the primary focus of a genre-based approach is on increasing productive skills through modelling, joint construction, and independent construction with the conception of language as a meaning making system. After the teacher applied the modelling stage, she assigned the students to create a zine containing the writing assignments. The zine was based on each student’s respective interests so it became the major topic of the zine. At the end of the course, it can be seen that the texts the students compiled in the zine reflected their skill and creativity. The result also reveals that the students have good understanding of the social function, generic structure, and linguistic features of explanation, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, news item, and review genres that have been taught in the Advanced Genre-Based Writing class. Moreover, they can expand their knowledge on how to apply different genres in printed media.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Setyaningsih N., Suryaningtyas V. and Larassati A. (2017). The Zine Project - Improving Students’ Skill and Creativity in Writing in English.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 299-303. DOI: 10.5220/0007166302990303

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Nina Setyaningsih and Valentina Widya Suryaningtyas and Anisa Larassati},
title={The Zine Project - Improving Students’ Skill and Creativity in Writing in English},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={299-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166302990303},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - The Zine Project - Improving Students’ Skill and Creativity in Writing in English
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Setyaningsih N.
AU - Suryaningtyas V.
AU - Larassati A.
PY - 2017
SP - 299
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0007166302990303