English Grammar and Teaching Strategies

Pollock, Joy; Waller, Elisabeth

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“…The content of the Siri' culture contains the values and spirit of competition, hard work, and perseverance to achieve optimal results. These values are considered to contribute to the students' ability to master learning material; and one of the subjects of English, more specifically, the control of the component skills of writing paragraphs, referred to by Pollock & Waller (2018) as the most difficult component to be mastered by students. Previous studies have not specifically examined the relationship between English language writing skills and student internal factors, namely optimism, perceived social support, academic self-efficacy, and the development of a perception of Siri' cultural values as a mediating factor.…”

Section: English Writing Skills Through Perception Of Siri' Cultural mentioning

confidence: 99%

English Writing Skills Through Perception of Siri’ Cultural Values: Optimism, Social Support, and Academic Self-Efficacy

Sudirman

Nurmandi

Bashori

2020

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The mastery of foreign languages, in particular English which is applied predominantly in the international scope is one form of improving the quality of an indvidual. This research aims to find empirical support for relationships between optimism, social support, academic self-efficacy and mastery of academic English paragraph writing skills mediated by perceptions of Siri’ cultural values. Siri’ cultural values are living laws which becomes the guidance in think, act, and build interpersonal relationship with other individuals. The instruments of this research applied writing tasks, scales of optimism, social support, academic self-efficacy, and perceptions of Siri’ cultural values. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results show that the relationship between optimism, social support, and academic self-efficacy and mastery of academic English paragraph writing skills will be stronger when students are able to perceive cultural values of Siri’ well. It is worthy of attention for educators and education observers that when students are required to be able to master a learning material not only from the cognitive side concerned, but also the psychological side of students must be considered.

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Section: English Writing Skills Through Perception Of Siri' Cultural mentioning

confidence: 99%