Strategies Used by Indonesian Students' in Writing Poetry

Hanuer's Meaningful Literacy has been used as a major justification for including poetry writing as part of pedagogical practices in second and foreign language contexts. Unfortunately, within the EFL context, many teachers are still reluctant to include poetry writing in their teaching practices due to the common assumption that writing poems in a second language is too difficult for students to deal with and therefore will be out of their reach and interest. This qualitative research which collected data through observations, documentation and surveys, investigated how 171 Indonesian EFL students successfully write their poetry books in creative writing classes. This study concludes that EFL students could enjoy poetry writing as expressive pedagogy and thus, debunks the negative assumption related to EFL students' lack of interest and appreciation in poetry writing.

Strategies". I agree with the contents of this article because Hansen (2011) and Brian (2008) contended than speech from verse do a part within the enthusiastic advancement of understudies because it bring through them involve genuine life associations and take an interest in profound considering. There are four skills that must be mastered by students, namely: writing, reading, listening, and speaking. Of the four skills, according to most language teachers, teaching writing skills is the most difficult. because second language learners not only write down the ideas that are in their minds but they must arrange them according to the provisions or patterns in writing a second language, different from their first language. (Hanauaer, 2012: 105) argues L2 learners are difficult to write because there is a contractual agreement in what they are required to write against the establishment of some abstract or textbook standard to be assessed on the basis of outer standardized tests. Writing poetry is one of the most effective educational approaches to significant literacy. Studies have shown that including poetry when writing lessons has several advantages. Hughes argues that writing poetry raises students' awareness and helps them connect with themselves, others, and the world. Similarly, Hansen and Brian argue that. The language of poetry do an important character in students' tempramental expansion because it enable learner to impression real-life relation and engage inside reflection. To ever the potency advantage of integrating poetry

2021

In this article, Rahmah Fithriani examines Poetry Writing in EFL Classes: Learning from Indonesian Student Strategies for sixth semester students at a university in North Sumatra. The author provides some evidence that teaching poetry writing through the strategies mentioned in the article can refute some statements which say that students will find it difficult to write poetry in a second language because they always think that writing poetry must use a predetermined grammar. Facts was discovered by data gathering methods such as observation, recording, and surveys, which looked into how 171 Indonesian EFL students were able to complete their poetry book in creative writing class. Most English teachers in Indonesia do not include poetry writing subjects because there are no such subjects in the syllabus or in books and some teachers also think that poetry writing is a very demanding and difficult task for EFL students to achieve. And the author also provides several strategies so that it is easier for students to use one of the strategies they think is easy to complete their poetry book and this strategy can also be used by Indonesian teachers who still very rarely enter poetry subjects because these teachers think that students will find it difficult to write poetry in a second language. This study aims to determine whether the strategies used are successful in attracting students' interest and success in writing poetry. The findings of an ethnographic case study suggest that students utilize the following tactics when producing English poetry: (1) Use popular poetry templates to generate ideas; (2) build a vocabulary library for rhyming poetry; and (3) build emotions by sharing personal stories and then channeling them via poetry. This study discovered that EFL students may enjoy writing poetry as a form of expression, refuting misconceptions about EFL students' lack of interest in and respect for poetry.

Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2018

Competency of poetry writing assessment is one of the significant keys that must be owned by teacher, especially the teacher with poet competency. This research analyzed the poetry teacher's role in authentic assessment of poetry writing based on Indonesian Senior High School students' perspective. The data were obtained from Senior High School students of language major in poetry writing class. The characteristics of the poetry teacher were gained based on the teacher's competency in publishing a national scale-poetry book. This work reveals that according to the student's perspective, poetry teachers did not involve the students in poetry writing assessment inhibited the authentic assessment of poetry writing. Therefore, the instrument of objective assessment of poetry writing could minimize the student assessment mistake so that the poetry teachers become facilitators as well as mentors in authentic assessment collaboratively undertaken with students.

2021

The article entitled-Poetry Writing in EFL Classrooms: Learning from Indonesian Students' Strategies‖ written by Rahmah Fithriani, a journal published in 2021. This article discussed about strategies of Indonesian students' in writing poetry. It is evident from the abstract of the article that EFL students could enjoy writing poetry as espressive pedagogy and could eliminate negative assumptions about lack of interest and appreciation of EFL students in writing poetry. The author mention that there are three strategies that Indonesian students' used in writing poetry. Writing poetry helps build student awareness and enables connection with self, others, and world. In addition,

2020

n This research is a quantitative research that aims to describe the ability to write poetry based on the image media of students of class VIII SMP 1 PSKD JAKARTA PUSAT District. The population of this study consists of 151 students that are put into 5 classes. Sampling is done by using simple random sampling technique with total sample of 109 students. The instrument used is the test used to obtain the data of students' ability in writing poetry. The tests are given in the form of essays. Data analysis techniques used descriptive statistical analysis that describes the results of Writing Poetry Ability using Picture Media. Based on the descriptive statistic descriptive statistic analysis, the highest score obtained by the students in terms of the structure of the poem builder is 96 and the lowest score is 50 with the average score of 74,09. Thus it can be concluded that the students of grade VIII SMP 1 PSKD JAKARTA PUSAT are able to write poetry based on the media images. n Key...

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