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Improving French Writing through the Use of French Newspapers - A study on Summary writing
Cross-Cultural Studies
2014,
37(), pp.267-286
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2014.37..267
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2014.37..267
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
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The purpose of this study is to improve the writing skills through activitiesto read and summarize the internet children newspaper article. The subjects ofstudy are the college students of A2-B1 level in the French writing classes. Therange of study was as follows:- As the previous activity of writing, activities of teaching and learning ofvocabularies to comprehend the internet children newspaper article. - learn about the rules of summary- writing the summaryThe children's newspaper used in this study has the advantage that can increasethe learning motivation of learners as having a topicality by itself and a levelof easy language. The summary activities can be called a comprehensive activities of teachingand learning that combine the critical reading ability that can distinguish importantinformation and secondary one with the creative writing ablility that can reconstructone's own style from the selected content. In addition, the summary assists theunderstanding of a text and is a help to its memory. It is the strategy of readingcomprehension and also is simultaneously the strategy of writing that can writewith one's own vocabulary by newly structuring the text. The results of this study will provide a vitality for the education environmentand field of study of French language that have been neglected the writingability. Moreover it will be the motivation to propose a way of a balancedFrench language communication to our French language learners weighted onoral communication.
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