Nurhayati, Nurhayati (2013) A Study of Autonomous Learning in Descriptive Text Writing at The Second Semester of The English Education Program at The State College of Islamic Studies Jurai Siwo of Metro Academic Year 2012/2013. Undergraduate thesis, STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore and describe the implementation of Autonomous Learning of the students' descriptive text writing skill. Autonomous Learning is an approach in which the students or learners demanded to be independent and responsible participants on their own learning. In this condition, the learners are more active and attractive rather than accepting knowledge merely. In addition, it emphasized that the students do more practice in learning process. Since, the process of learning they are not alone, they have the guide of a counselor who is offering support when they needed.

The procedures of autonomous learning can be briefly described as follows. In the first meeting, there are some activities that should be done by the lecturer and students. Firstly, the lecturer gives the general description about descriptive text. The lecturer also explains the classroom procedures which consist of (library research, writing first draft and self-evaluation). Then, the students self-evaluate their current writing skill and requested to write descriptive text that they are interested in. The students read model of descriptive text and compare the own original one. The lecturer gives homework to them, they are asked to conduct the library research and write their draft at home. During conducting the library research, they are supposed to find common method of identification and description of descriptive text. In the second meeting, the students report the relevant books or articles they read by mentioning the title and showing the relevant information for their descriptive text, it is the way how the writers organize their ideas including the identification and description. Writing and revising are the in-class activities that students do after making the outline. The last activities is scoring, the students score their own performance (descriptive text).

The research I have done suggests that the autonomous learning has a good activity which done by the lecturer and students actively. Here, the students are demanded to be an active and autonomous learner under the guidance of the lecturer. Autonomous Learning can help the students to increase their writing skill and it can develop their ideas in writing descriptive text.

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