Article "Improving Functional Texts Writing Skills in English as a Foreign Language"

Ayu Rina Dwi Utari
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"Improving Functional Texts Writing Skills in English as a Foreign Language"

This research paper aimed at ways of improving students’ writing skills in English, with focus on writing functional texts. They applied a questionnaire to find out the students’ interests and used the results when preparing the actual writing tasks. The answers to the tasks were written online, through posts on Facebook.com. In the end, they applied a questionnaire to help students to self-evaluate their own cognitive approaches. The results of the experiment confirmed that the usage of topics connected to the students’ own interests increases their ability to write functional texts.