Developing Children Literature Through Genre Based Writing Class
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2017-04-04Author
Setyaningsih, Nina
Suryaningtyas, Valentina Widya
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This research is conducted to increase literacy awareness. It is based on two primary concerns,
namely: to improve the writing skills of English Department students of Universitas Dian
Nuswantoro Semarang and to develop a model of suitable reading materials for Indonesian
children that are learning English as a foreign language. In the English Department, the writing
class employs a genre-based approach in which the teacher applies the teaching and learning
cycles. According to Callaghan & Rothery (1988), the learning cycle consists of four stages
namely building the context, modeling, joint construction, and independent construction. Five
genres are taught, one of which is Narrative. The goal is specifically to enable students to create
stories or books for children. Therefore, there are some guidelines that need to be followed
to develop a narrative text, such as the generic structure, the linguistic features of a narrative
text, and the personal value of children stories. The method of this research consists of class
observation and students’ texts analysis. After the teacher and the students discussed examples
of narrative texts, the teacher asked the students to create children stories with illustration in the
form of a booklet. The result reveals that the students are able to create narrative texts that follow
the generic structure and linguistic features appropriately, and they also present their texts in the
booklet creatively.