These days, English is the most useful language in the world. Whenever you are, you can communicate with English. Nowadays, the improvement of technology make people communicate each other from all over the world. Through the mass communication and in...
These days, English is the most useful language in the world. Whenever you are, you can communicate with English. Nowadays, the improvement of technology make people communicate each other from all over the world. Through the mass communication and internet, written language can be seen everywhere in recent days. Even though we know the importance of English, we underestimate the education of English writing skill. We emphasize the ability of reading, listening, speaking, not writing. However, writing skill also important to communicate.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the students’ writing ability and learning attitude through the use of English advertisements. English ads are effective materials for arousing the students’ interest and attention. Because of these reasons I started this study.
For this purpose, the following research questions were investigated:
(1) Is writing instruction using the English advertisements effective for developing English writing skills?
(2) Is writing instruction using the English advertisements effective for encouraging the learning attitude?
For this study, the experiment was conducted for 4 weeks with 20, 1st grade middle school students who were divided into 2 groups: 1 experimental group and 1 controlled group. The experimental group was provided with English advertisement, and controlled group was with a textbook. In addition, a pre-test and a post-test were taken to each group to measure the improvement of the students’ writing ability. Two intermediate tests to compare the two groups’ marks were also conducted during the experiment.
The main results obtained from this study are as follows. First of all, there was a markedly increased scores between 2 groups in assessment; the use of English advertisement in English writing learning was found to be effective in improving writing skills. Especially, the experiment group showed the improvement on composition, vocabulary and contents area.
Secondly, using a English ads brought a positive effect in students’ learning attitude such as interest, confidence and participation. The noticed point was that students of the experimental group were more motivated in the English writing classes than those of the controlled group.
Thirdly, an additional survey for the experimental groups certified that students gained interest and attention in the writing area. Also, the English ads were dropped the mental barrier of students. For these results, the hypothesis were verified.
In conclusion, English writing by using English ads can be helpful and useful for students to improve their writing ability and learning attitude for English writing. However, for more effective utilization of English ads in the classroom, the methods of using ads should diversify. If same pattern of instruction would be continued, students feel boring and getting lost their interest. Therefore, teachers are required to utilize English ads and develop interesting writing materials. Then, if teacher uses the ads in many ways, the ads can be a meaningful resource for developing communicative competence and critical thinking.