The purpose of this paper is to explore if the learning of biographical writing contributes to the positive views and attitudes towards others of different groups. The paper used the Research and Development approach by designing and implementing a learning model of biographical writing. The subjects of this study were 200 seventh-grade students…

Internet technology offers young students opportunities of writing poetry through apps, software, interactive websites and computer assisted creative writing platforms. This study aimed to develop learning media in the form of an audio-visual product, named "Ruang Ekspresi" as a poetry writing platform for junior high school students,…

Writing might be difficult for some people (Alwasilah, 2007). Some students can speak English fluently and confidently, although since they have difficulties in conveying their ideas in writing. Thus, it needs the effective and efficient model of teaching to improve the teaching learning process. Synectic model of teaching is a model applied to…

This article reports a study of results of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model on the teaching of English writing, particularly on students' personal recount writing and their motivation to write. The study was aimed at investigating whether: (1) SRSD was effective toward students' personal recount writing and (2) SRSD was effective…

This study aims to investigate and create a writing learning process that can generate both motivation and results from writing activities. The effectiveness of this model can be seen from students' improvement both the quality of the process and the results of writing learning. Based on preliminary study, this study found a number of data about…