Assessing EFL Students' Ability in Developing Idea to Organize Academic Essay

International Conference on Industrial Technology for Sustainable Development 2017

工业技术;经济学

Herdi^1 ; Abbas, M. Fadhly Farhy^1

Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru

28265, Indonesia^1

关键词: Academic writings;    Developing Idea;    English educations;    Essay writings;    Learning outcome;    Mapping techniques;    Quantitative research;    Teachers trainings;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/175/1/012074/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/175/1/012074

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This research is based on the needs to analyze as well as evaluate the students' ability in mapping and developing idea of Topic Sentence as a material of Academic Writing Subject at English Education Department Faculty of Teachers Training and Education University of Lancang Kuning. The ability of mapping and developing ideas are very useful to increase essay writing quality as learning outcome of Academic Writing Subject. The aims of this research is to analyze the ability of the fourth semester students of English Education Department Faculty of Teachers Training and Education University of Lancang Kuning in mapping and developing idea of Topic Sentence as the evaluation of Academic Writing Subject. The method used descriptive quantitative research design. The sample of this research was consisted of 49 students. In this research, the researcher collected the data by giving some topic sentences. Then, the students were asked to use one of mapping techniques and develop the idea into essay paragraph. The data were analyzed by using writing scoring rubric, and then the scores were categorized into some levels of ability. The result of the test showed that the average score of the students' writing was 77.45 and categorized into good level. It can be concluded that the students' ability in writing and developing idea is categorized into good level ability.