Engaging Students on Descriptive Writing through Small Group Discussion

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Abstract

This present study is aimed to know pre-service teacher teaching experience students writing descriptive text. Therefore, this study investigates the process of the teaching and learning descriptive text through small group discussion. This study uses Qualitative approach and uses Narrative Inquiry as the method in gaining the data. The participants of this research are pre-service teacher’s students studying of University Singaperbangsa Karawang and teacher of Senior High School Karawang. Observation, interview, reflective journal and documentation are used to collect the data to get the information or answer related to the research question. The result found out that there are four ways pre-service teacher teaches writing Descriptive Text, those are building knowledge of the field (BKOF), modeling, step joint construction of text and independent construction of text. Moreover, there are also obstacle factors when pre-service teacher teaches descriptive text. The researcher found that all of participant had no obstacle factor in teaching, all participant seem students who had obstacle in teaching descriptive text, it would describe with divided the three categories such as in Phychological Problem, in Linguistics Problem, and Cognitive Problems or means factor because of the lack knowledge of the target language, lack of practice and lack of vocabulary.