The Use of Reflective Writing to Improve Students’ Writing and Critical Thinking Skills

Siti Mutiara Sani, Nia Kurniawati, Dahlya Indra Nurwanti

2017

Abstract

Writing represents individual's way of thinking. Grammar and style are important in writing, but it is also necessary to focus on the value that flows through every sentence and paragraph. Both writing and thinking could be practiced through Reflective Writing (RW). RW facilitates the individual to sharpen general writing and writing reflection. The research aims to describe and analyze the students’ writing skill by making RW. Specifically, this research is conducted to find out whether or not Reflective Writing (RW) could improve students both in the aspect of general writing and writing reflection. This is qualitative research, particularly a case study. The three participants are selected purposively by considering the first draft of RW. The instruments to collect the data are document analysis and interview. The result shows that all participants improved in their general writing, especially on content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. In making reflection, two participants improve to the higher level of reflection. The research is necessary for teaching EFL writing in Indonesian context in which RW is still considered a new way to teach the students writing and thinking skills.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sani S., Kurniawati N. and Nurwanti D. (2017). The Use of Reflective Writing to Improve Students’ Writing and Critical Thinking Skills.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 331-335. DOI: 10.5220/0007166903310335

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Siti Mutiara Sani and Nia Kurniawati and Dahlya Indra Nurwanti},
title={The Use of Reflective Writing to Improve Students’ Writing and Critical Thinking Skills},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={331-335},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166903310335},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - The Use of Reflective Writing to Improve Students’ Writing and Critical Thinking Skills
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Sani S.
AU - Kurniawati N.
AU - Nurwanti D.
PY - 2017
SP - 331
EP - 335
DO - 10.5220/0007166903310335