Perception Review on Related Theories
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getting thoughts from students’ head on to paper. How to explain the concept of stream of consciousness and tell students that free writing is easy become the
challenge that teachers must be face. Next, the important part is journalistic questions. Teachers should be able to explain journalistic questions by reviewing
the question words: who, what, where, when, why and how. The last one is cluster mapping. It shows relationships between ideas.
English teachers must be able to facilitate the students in this part because cluster mapping does
not only talking about teacher’s teaching abilities to explain about this concept but also the students must also be able to identify whether their
written products are related and well-structured or not. Teacher must have at least examples of English text types which are clear and well-structured.
To make the learning media the researcher needs these theories to make sure that the media contains those techniques. They are also required to make sure
that the learning media is proper enough to be a source of knowledge. The use of Text Types Board for both teaching reading and writing
techniques is as a first source of knowledge and as a reference for students. Text Types Board as a first source of knowledge means when students need a source of
knowledge for the first time, Text Types Board can facilitate them in learning types of text in English.
Text Types Board as a reference of learning means this learning media can also stimulate their independent learning. They can use Text Types Board as a
validator for their work while reading or writing about text types in English. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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