Students’ Writing Tests 1 Classroom Observation

Efrita Marthalena BR. Saragih Sumbayak, 2014 Implementation Of Genre-Based Approach In The Teaching Of Descriptive Text Writing Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu | perpustakaan.upi.edu 1.3.4 ICoT 16 3. Cognitive 1.1 Writing 17 1.2 Teaching Writing 18 1.3 Implementation of GBA in teaching writing 1.3.1 Building Knowledge 19 1.3.2 MoT 20 1.3.3 JCoT 21, 22, 23 1.3.4 ICoT 24, 25 As described in Table 3.3, all the statements in the questionnaire divided into three sections based on the aspects of the attitude: affective, behavioral, and cognitive. First, the statements of the affective aspect related to like and dislike of the object, for example: I like writing various types of texts Statement 1; I like learning learning descriptive text writing Statement 2; I am happy when the descriptive text I wrote is evaluatedcorrected by the teacher or friend Statement 9. Second, behavioral statements connected with how the students behaved when they experience the emotions they feel towards the object are marked. This aspect is marked by statements like Writing is a very important way for me to express my feeling Statement 10; My English teacher always teaches us how to write descriptive text Statement 11; Writing a descriptive text individually grows my self confidence Statement 16. Finally, cognitive statements which related to the belief that has led to the underlying reason for the emotion towards the object or event can be seen in the statements such as I understand how to arrange a good descriptive text after I had learnt and analyzed others’ texts Statement 20; I understand that writing a text should be done in several stages and need several times of revision Statement 22; After learning descriptive text writing by using texts and writing activities in this research, I think writing is important for me to be learned Statement 24. The complete map of the statements in the questionnaire and the form of the questionnaire for the students are presented in Appendix 6 and 7.