Strengthening tertiary students’ writing skills through TREND model
Writing has always been subjected as a difficult task for students taking English language subjects during their first two semesters studying in tertiary education. For these students, writing a composition has been a task they would prefer to avoid doing. One of many reasons is the inability to...
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| Language: | English |
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AESS Publications
2019
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36908/1/Soo%20Ruey%20Shing.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36908/ |
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| Summary: | Writing has always been subjected as a difficult task for students taking English
language subjects during their first two semesters studying in tertiary education. For
these students, writing a composition has been a task they would prefer to avoid doing.
One of many reasons is the inability to first generate and organize their ideas for
writing tasks. Besides, they faced difficulty in expressing themselves fluently or being
able to write sentences that are grammatically correct in the target language. Realizing
the importance of writing skills among undergraduates in the tertiary education, a
study was carried out on 200 undergraduates who attended a day Malaysian University
English Test (MUET) workshop to examine students‟ writing ability through a
proposed model of Transferring, Restructuring, Engaging, Negotiating and
Documenting (T.R.E.N.D.). The findings had shown significant improvement in
learners‟ writing in term of coherency and the development of ideas after the workshop.
As a whole, the use of T.R.E.N.D. Model had helped to improve students‟ writing
ability in terms of not only language proficiency, but also their level of confidence. |
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