Using Visual Media for Improving Writing Skills
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https://doi.org/10.53103/cjlls.v2i4.55Keywords:
Writing Skills, Visual Media, Development, EFL ClassAbstract
Most teachers, including students, believe that teaching and learning writing skills are not easy because writing skills need attention for organizing ideas, choosing appropriate words, and constructing a paragraph with correct sentence mechanisms. Furthermore, it is more difficult for foreign language learners because they have to change ideas to an appropriate text. They need to transform the ideas with a foreign language. They face a lot of problems and challenges to write a well-organized paragraph such as lack of words, fear of making mistakes and writing anxiety. Additionally, the writing classes should be more enjoyable. There should be more activities and tasks to make the learners practice. Then the students need to be provided chances and opportunities to write more and more. In this way, the students can write quickly. They explore their talent and writing ability to express their thoughts, emotions, ideas, and opinions. Thus, the students should attend the class with their interest rather than obeying rules and program formalities. So, it is critical to find and apply different strategies to create an exciting and productive writing class to encourage the students to write more. The present study mainly focuses on empowering writing skills via implementing visual media in the class. A descriptive research design was implemented. The data was collected from previously conducted studies about visual media and writing skills. Thematic analysis was utilized to analyze and discuss the data. In the end, it was found that visual media is highly virtual in enhancing writing skills.
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