THE USE OF RIDDLE FOR TEACHING WRITING TO EFL

Paramita Kusumawardhani

Abstract


The objective of this research is about using riddle to improve the learners’, especially the English Foreign Learners (EFL) writing skill. The development of teaching learning activity has brought some new ways in teaching learning English activity.  It also relates to the use of technology to support the process of teaching learning activity. The development of technology has also made some applications to support it. Riddle is one of the applications that can be used as a teaching tool to support the process of teaching learning activity. Riddle can also be used as a tool to teach writing. Writing is one of the English skills that should be mastered by the learners, especially EFL. Writing is the most difficult skill in learning English as it relates to many others elements in English such as grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, etc. The participants of this research are the learners in of the English Course at Gading Serpong, Tangerang. Descriptive qualitative was used as the method of the research and the EFLs’ paper are used as the instruments of the research. The results of the research are: (1) Most learners were excited when they are asked to make a riddle; (2) The learners could explore the words and sentences related to the riddle; (3) Learners who have good writing skill could make a good riddle, and (4) Learners who are not really good at writing, got some difficulties in exploring and guessing the riddle given by another friends.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30870/aiselt.v3i3.11124

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