LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
Vol 22, No 2 (2019): October 2019

ENHANCING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS ON CONTENT AREA

Mariana Ester Politton (Unika Atma Jaya Jakarta)
Kayetana Maria Widi Hadiyanti (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Sep 2019

Abstract

Writing, as an instrument of communication, is nowadays accomplished mostly in English to ensure information understood globally via digital platforms. This creates a transformation in job fields into utilizing technologies to textually deliver messages. Therefore, it is vital to generate high qualified future employees competing in the work places. Accordingly, university students must be equipped with English writing competencies as well as strategies focusing on content area, in addition to forms, so as to promote meaning-making concerning critical and logical thinking skills, besides to comprise comprehensive realization. Thisqualitative research utilized a critical literature review by conducting in-depth data collection, organization, integration, and classification of writing strategies. It offers suggested maneuvers to overcome higher education learners writing problems: lack of content maturation practices, through implementing collaborative writing discussions with either or both verbal or / and online discussions. It can as well integrate (intensive / extensive) reading and writing instructions in contextual cognitive processes concentrating on intellectual meaning development.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

LLT

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, to be published twice a year, namely in April and October, is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published by the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. The ...