She’s Got Nice Smile: Enacting Personal Photograph in Teaching Descriptive Writing

Authors

  • Moch. Imam Machfudi UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI JEMBER, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v11i4.8791

Keywords:

Descriptive Writing, Indonesia, Secondary Education, Personal Photograph,

Abstract

English teachers agreed that developing their students’ writing ability was the most chalenging than the other abilities This study explores the components of effective teaching descriptive writings. Specifically, this research examines a classroom practice of an English teacher at the State Islamic Junior High School (Madrasah Tsanawiyah) in Jember, East Java. This study focuses on how the English teacher enacted personal photograph in teaching writing and to investigate the students’ perceptions toward the use of personal photograph in writing descriptive text. This study, which employs qualitative research, portrays the reality that occurs in the field related to the enactment of personal photographs in teaching writing descriptive text. There was a successful modelling of personal photograph based on students’ views toward the learning that almost all beneficial. Aside from the successful practice, this research found minor drawbacks although did not impede the classroom practice.

Author Biography

Moch. Imam Machfudi, UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI JEMBER

Tadris Bahasa Inggris, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember, Indonesia

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Machfudi, M. I. (2023). She’s Got Nice Smile: Enacting Personal Photograph in Teaching Descriptive Writing. Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 11(4), 857–867. https://doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v11i4.8791

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