DAN ILMU PENDIDIIGN 'URUSAN PENDIDIKAN MHASA DAN SENI PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS

USINGMAGAZINEARTICLESTO TEACH
DESCRIPTIVE
WRITING
TO THE THIRDSEMESTER
ENGLISHDEPARTMENT
STUDENTS
OF
WIDYAMANDALA CATHOLICUNIVERSITY
A THESIS
ln PartialFulfillmentof the Requirements
for the SarjanaPendidikanDegreein
EnglishLanguageTeaching

By:
FIENAWATI
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Teaching

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Learning

Activj t1eB.

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4-2_t-5 Method and Technique

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4.2.L.6 Teaching Aids.

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4.2.1 -7 Correoting

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Time Allocation-.

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Standart

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Example

of

a

Lesson

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an Obiect

PIan in Describing
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Forrmrlat ion

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Objective

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4 _ 2 . 2- 2 T e a c h l n g M a t e r i a l . - .
4 -2 -2.3 Teaching
Learning
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Activiti-es

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Time Allocation.....

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Teaching Aids

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Correcting

Standart

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4.3 Conclusion.

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C C J N C I - , U S TAONND S T I G G E S T I O N . - . .

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5-1 (lonclrrelon .

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5-2 Suggestlon.

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FTBi,TCXIRAPHY
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ABSTRACT
Fienawatl,

q $ 1 n p Ma e a zi n e Ar tieleg

to Teaeh Deecr lptive

StucJents,
5 1 Theele, the Englieh
W j d y a M a n d a l a U n ' iv e r s i . t y ,
Surabaya,

Department
1998.

of

In order to be a guccessful
learner of Enelleh
as

a forei gn language, one needs the maeter:y of
the
four
language ekill-e,
namely: listening,
speaking, readlng and
wr"iting.
However, in the procesa of Learning, writing
ia
glven
less
attentlon
than the other skllls.
It
is
the
negl,ected ekilI
among the others. Now, attitudes
towards
the role of writlng

have changed in the language teaehlng
learning
actj.viti-ee.
It becomee mtrch more important.
Having
studled for ten eemeeters at
the
Eneltsh
Department
of
Widya Mandala Catholic
Univereity,
and
havlng
obeerved
and lniervlewed
some of
her
irlende
informa]ly,

the writer
haa come to the
eonclueion
that
the
teachere
of
wrlttng
ueually
use text
booke and
pictr.rres when they teach descriptive
writing.
Therefore,
get
the
studente
trored easl1y
because there
is

no
rleve1.opment, of materi.a l Introducing
a new materlal
1e needed ln
the
pr:oeee6 of J angrrage teachi-ng and learning
since
boredom
io
one of the factore that can decrease
the
studente.
motjvation
in
learning.
Becauee of
that
reason,
the
writer
would
like
to introduce
magazlne
artlcles
in
deecriptjve
wnlting cfass. She hopes that thie will
help
the
students overcome their
boredorn and rnay brlng a new
atmosphere
in
the
elaes thug raise
the
interest
and
rnotivation
in
descr j.ptive
writing.
Ae a reeult,
the
studentswriting
ability
mlght or ls
expected
to
be
bet,ter.
To be eucceesful in the descrtptlve
writlng
c]aes,
the
teacher
should
also
concentrate
on
selecting
magazines, becauee not all Engli"sh magazines are sultable
for
third
semester etudents of Englieh
Department.
She
recommends Freeway. Horlzon, Llfe,
Natj.onaI
Geographlc
and Neweweek. The writer
considers those
magazlnes
are
suitable
for
the
third
semeeter
etudents
of
Engltsh
department j,n their
cleecriptj-ve wrlting
c1aes.
Moreover,
those magazines contain easy-to comprehend Ianguages
for
the
etrxlenta
and more
intereetj-ng
and up to
date
articLes.
The technlque
that
is uged
tn
thle
study
la
aemi.oontrolled
writlng.
The reagon
for
thie
1e the
students
of thlrd
serneeter Englleh
Department
already
got
stnreture
anrl vocabufary III
eubjects.
They are

r! ii

considered
to
maoter grammati.cal rules of
English
and
Englieh vocabularyAfter all,
the writer
reallzee that thls thesle ls
far
from being perfeet.
She wishes that there
would
be
another student or reeearcher who Is wil-llng to
contlnue
thle
stucly by doing a field
research to see whether
or
not
the
materiale
taken
give
from
madazinee
more
contributione
to the teaching of deecrlptive
writing.