Exploring Indonesian EFL Students' Strategies and Resources in English Writing: A Case Study at UINSA

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Febriarti, Wichda Erika (2020) Exploring Indonesian EFL Students' Strategies and Resources in English Writing: A Case Study at UINSA. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Writing strategies and resources are the important parts in writing which help the students’ in increasing their writing quality. This study aimed to explore the Indonesian EFL students’ English writing strategies and resources, specifically at UINSA. This qualitative descriptive study collected the data through interview of 5 students and distributing questionnaire of 31 students from English Education Department and English Literature Department of UINSA to answer the issue. The result of this study highlighted the following: (1) The students used various strategies in their English writing and used different strategies in each writing stages, such as, in planning, the students mostly used brainstorming, but they also used clustering, and etc; in drafting, they mostly used outlining, but they also used mapping, and etc; in revising, they mostly used teacher’s feedback, but they also used reorganizing ideas, and etc; and in evaluating, they mostly used teacher’s feedback, but they also evaluated based on self-awareness, and etc. Furthermore, the way students used writing resources were searching main problem of their writing, exploring ideas by themselves, and making questions related to their writing topic. (2) The students used various writing resources and used different resources in each writing stage, such as, in planning, they mostly used online resource/online practice, meanwhile, they also used teacher, and etc; in drafting, they mostly used the same resources as in planning, meanwhile, they also worked with classmates, and etc; in revising, they mostly asked teacher’s feedback, meanwhile, they also used textbook, and etc; and in evaluating, they prefer to evaluate their writing also based on teacher’s feedback, meanwhile, they also used resource from university and etc. Furthermore, the ways students in using writing resources were study more by themselves, quoting, and paraphrasing. In conclusion, the students used more than one strategy and resource in their writing, this study found that the students used different strategies and resources in each writing stage.