1. Introduction
In writing, there are many students confused to start their writing consepts. Individually, a student only uses his own ideas without any supporting ideas from the other sources so it makes a static learning process because ideas appear from a student so it will produce a limited concept depends on a student only.
A solitude student is difficult to think an idea. It makes writing process really difficult to start especially to get a main idea. If a student is starting to write, it is difficult to expand specific ideas and it will take longer time to finish a writing process.
Solution ?
Most of students prefer to learn in group. The cooperative learning is suitable way to share an ideas among other students in a group. It will produce a dynamic learning process because it will be expanded by several ideas. Many ideas will make a shorter or faster writing process. There, will appear many consepts in writing and students only have to choose the suitable concept. This cooperative learning is a best answer in teaching writing.
How does it work in teaching writing ?
In writing, “Think-Talk-Write (TTW)” strategy is a cooperative learning mode to make teaching and learning process easier. It introduced by Huinker and Laughlin. Basically, this strategy is sharing ideas among many students in a group before starting to write. In this strategy, students really active in writing process because they will express their own ideas freely.
TTW strategy divide students into several heterogeneous group to make writing process more effective. In cooperative writing including this strategy, will improving students’s mastering concepts. To mastering concepts, this strategy needs instruments as a visualization for students to expand their ideas widely. Generally, the instrument such some pictures that can be used to exploring students’s creativity and sharing each other. Pictures as a visualization help to expanding point of ideas that can be disscussed in a group.
2. Procedures
Pre-writing
Before starting the writing class, a teacher must prepare some teaching instruments like pictures for groups in a class. The pictures are essential thing to visualize or expand students ideas to write something. Those pictures is very useful in writing description and narrative. Then, every pictures in each group will be disscussed using TTW (Think-Talk-Write) strategy.
Before share the pictures, a teacher must divide all of students into several groups at least 3 or 4 students in a group. A teacher should to know the students ability in group dividing because it will influence a group ability also.
For example, a teacher gives a task like writing a description depends on the picture that students got from him. Students in a group will discuss the pictures spontaniously and express their opinion about the picture that they have. Naturally, visualization really show a specific or detail things and it will produce many ideas unexpectedly from the students because they THINK about ideas and TALK about ideas that they got so when their discussion is finished, they will WRITE the filtered ideas.
Another example, a teacher gives a narrative task depends on a picture. The teacher showing a picture like a castle on a mountain and surrounded by some islands or any else. It will improve students creativity to make a dynamic story from a static picture because they will expand their ideas by seeing every part or composition of the picture. Absolutely they still need to THINK ideas, TALK or discuss the ideas, and then WRITE it down.
Whilst-writing
In writing process, students in a group will divide their job in writing paragraph by paragraph. As an example in describing a class picture, the leader of a group will give writing job to his friends like Anggun as the leader describes about the students in the picture, Fajar has a job to describe furnitures in the class picture, Rustam has a job to describe the situation of the class, and Ulil has a job to describe the teacher in that picture. In addition, describing depends on the picture part, so there are many things that can be expanded by the picture.
Each students in the group has described the picture and has produced a paragraph from each students in the group. After that, the leader of the group will merge all of the paragraphs but absolutely they have to discuss the wording of it to produce a coheren paragraph and make the paragraphs related each other and finally it becomes a whole description text.
In writing a narrative, the steps is almost same with the previous. What makes it different is in describing process of it. The teacher still use a picture as an instrument. He will show a picture in front of a class and it will be seen by all of students. The picture must enable to give story ideas because there are many pictures have no story ideas like texture photos, logo of companies, and many more. It will be better if teachers use social pictures, landscapes, animal interactions and many more.
All students will express their imagination in their own way and then they will write it down so it becomes many paragraphs because they will imagine every part of the picture into a non-fiction story. Same with the previous, a group must discuss the wording of each paragraphs that they have produced and make it related. The most important, they must not forget the general structure of a narrative. The students must obey the rule and use their imagination.
The Think-Talk-Write (TTW) strategy in groups really useful to improve the students’s writing activities. They are thinking ideas, Talk or discuss it in the group and finally write down their discussion results.
Post-writing
Every group must present their writing in front of the class. There will be many ideas from the other groups and it will really helpful for the presenter. Ideas for a better writing will be expressed in different ways depends on the students who comments the presentation.
After that, the teacher must collect the writings and do some corrections in wording and other aspects. Students often did some mistakes in structure and content of the text. Justifying the wording of the text is really necessary for the students as a reference to avoid their mistakes for next writing task.
One thing that cannot be forgotten that the teacher should give a homework like describing a picture or write an imagination story from a picture to the student individually. It will help to improve the students ability to use their right brain.
3. Excesses
- Cooperative Think-Talk-Write Strategy helps to improve student’s right brain because they will express their ideas spontaniously through a picture.
- The learning central is according to the students activities in discussing something so the teacher is not the central point in study process anymore.
- Student’s ideas will more expanded by supporting ideas from his groupmates and it will make a faster writing (conditional).
- TTW strategy makes the students learn to thinking concepts, share their ideas, and discussing a wording in a writing task.
- Ideas from the other groups and corrections from the teacher will be an essential thing to make a better writing.
4. Weaknesses
- This strategy is effective in description and narrative only.
- Sometimes, it needs more time to presenting and correcting.
- Several students still difficult to express their ideas, it depends on their group dividing not the strategy.
- The reality is not always same with the expectations.
References
Campbell Charles A.. Think-Talk-Write: A Behavioristic Pedagogy for Scribal Fluency. National Council of Teachers of English
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