HOW TO TEACH WRITING IN LITERATURE CLASS THROUGH GENRE-BASED APPROACH

Abstract

This present study was conducted in order to portray how to teach writing in
literature class throgh Genre-Based Approach. Specifically, this study identifies (1)
how lecturer guides students write their response to literature through Genre-Based
Approach, and (2) how the students write their response to literature using Genre-
Based Approach. Qualitative case study design was chosen as the method of the
study. The participants were 1 lecturer and 40 students who studied Prose in English
Education Study Program at one state university in Palembang. The data were
collected through observation, documentation, and questionnaire. The data were
analyzed qualitatively by doing thematic analysis. The result shows that (1) all the
procedures of Genre-Based Approach which incorporated Building Knowledge of
The Field (BKOF), Modelling, Joint Construction and Independent writing were
helpful in facilitating students writing, specifically BKOF and Joint Construction;
(2) Most of the participants, to some extents, have applied the schematic structures
(introduction, expands-on and summary) and the linguistic features modeled in this
study.