Teaching Comparison Essay using Mentor Text: Investigating Students’ Perception on the Use of Mentor Text in Comparison Essay Writing Class

Enny Irawati, Nova Ariani

2018

Abstract

Comparison essay requires students to be able to develop clear and organized essay writing. The previous experience in teaching comparison essays, the researchers conclude that most of their students were not able to elaborate thesis statement adequately which covers developing ideas, organizing essay, and using language accurately. Therefore, mentor texts are used to help students tackle this problem. Mentor texts are texts selected and used from which students learn the writing craft. Twenty-six undergraduate students of English Language and Literature program from Department of English, Faculty of Letters in Malang participate in the study. This study aims at finding out how students use the mentor text as a reference during text production and how they feel about the mentor text application in comparison essay class. The result supports Turner (2015) finding where the use of mentor text make the students as better writers and allow them to see many of the aspects where writers or authors use when they write. The majority of the students show awareness in developing ideas, organizing their essay, and using English written language correctly. In addition, students discover new vocabulary which they use in their writing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Irawati E. and Ariani N. (2018). Teaching Comparison Essay using Mentor Text: Investigating Students’ Perception on the Use of Mentor Text in Comparison Essay Writing Class. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 424-429. DOI: 10.5220/0008219400002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Enny Irawati and Nova Ariani},
title={Teaching Comparison Essay using Mentor Text: Investigating Students’ Perception on the Use of Mentor Text in Comparison Essay Writing Class},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={424-429},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008219400002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - Teaching Comparison Essay using Mentor Text: Investigating Students’ Perception on the Use of Mentor Text in Comparison Essay Writing Class
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Irawati E.
AU - Ariani N.
PY - 2018
SP - 424
EP - 429
DO - 10.5220/0008219400002284