A Constructivist Approach to Teaching Essay Writing: Bruner’s Model in Undergraduate English Language Instructions
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https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.3.P1.18Keywords:
Constructivist Approach, Essay Writing, Bruner’s ModelAbstract
The present study aims to find out the effect of Brunner’s Model on teaching essay writing. It has been hypothesized that there is no statistically significant difference between the achievement of student who are taught according to Brunner’s Model and those who are taught according to the academic teaching method (conventional). The selected population are students of Garmian University, College of Languages and human sciences, Department of English while the sample are students of the second year. Each of the experimental and control group consists of twenty-five participants. Pre-post experimental design is applied on the sample of the study. Data are collected and analyzed statistically, the results show that teaching essay writing through Bruner’s approach had a significant positive impact on students' performance. Some conclusions are drawn according to the findings of the study. It is concluded that Brunner’s model is an effective strategy on teaching essay writing as it enhances students’ ability of critical thinking where they could analyze situations of real life, comment, solve problems, and discuss social phenomena.
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