Rustipa, Katharina
Coherence-Based Teaching To Advanced Writing, To Foster The Students' Success In Their Study And The Professionals' Success In Their Carreer.
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Abstract
English written form is badly needed by professionals and students for the success in their career and in their study. However, coherent writting is not an easy task, even for advanced writers because it is a complex work that needs complex skills. Based on this background, the study investigates the coherence of English advanced writings of Indonesian writes. The study is aimed at finding out (1) The coherence of English Arguments of Indonesian writers, (2) How the coherence concept can assist the teaching of Advanced Writing. This study is descriptive and qualitative. The data of the study are 14 English Arguments of Indonesian writers found in The Jakarta Post in the last three years (2009-2011). The research results reveal that (1) The English Arguments of Indonesian writers are mostly developed partly coherently, (2) The significance of the coherence concept is to design coherence-based teaching to Advanced Writing. It is suggested that English teacher apply coherence-based strategy to teach Advanced Writing. The coherence-based teaching can be explained as follows. The teaching materials comprise (1) Discourse organizational development, (2) Argumentative genre, (3) Cohesive and metadiscourse markers, (4) Fullness of paragraph development, (5) Clear and effective introduction, (6) Relevant title formulation, (7) Clear conclusion. The teaching materials are presented in the following stages: (1) Introductory activities, (2) Eplicit teaching, (3) Students handouts, (4) Awareness-raising tasks, (5) Writing practice.
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