eprintid: 699 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 587 dir: disk0/00/00/06/99 datestamp: 2019-05-02 05:03:43 lastmod: 2019-05-02 05:03:43 status_changed: 2019-05-02 05:03:43 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Suharti, Dwi Sloria creators_name: Permanasari, Nurbaiti Eka creators_name: Ihsana El Khuluqo, Ihsana El Khuluqo creators_id: dwisloria@umt.ac.id creators_id: Ekarusli21@gmail.com creators_id: ihsana_khuluqo@uhamka.ac.id title: PREWRITING ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING EFL WRITING ispublished: pub subjects: H1 keywords: Teaching EFL Writing, Prewriting activities, Interviewing abstract: In this paper, the researcherswould like to propose a teaching EFL writing course: News Story, which the researchershave used in an EFL classroom context. This effort is different from others in some occasions. Firstly, in the stages of developing ideas of a news story: a biographynews, the researchersencourage students to seek for related information for their composition through pre writing activities such as, the activity of research that is by interviewing: preparing some questions and asking those questions to the (intended person) source. Secondly, at the phase of drafting, the researchersask students to work cooperatively, to construct the main ideas and supporting ideas this activity ends with the results which are sentences then paragraphs.Furthermore, before the researchersprovide a writing task: writing a biography news, students are given transitional wordsto make their composition coherently. Lastly, they upload their composition in their blog. In short, in the proposed teaching EFL writing: a biography news story, by interviewing, students can understand how to organize the writing material according to the necessities of the writing task; writing biography News. To sum up, prewriting activities; through interviewing can assist EFL students to generate the ideas which can inspire and aid them realize both what they want to write and how to write it on their writing task: A Biography News. date: 2019 date_type: published publisher: Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof.Dr. HAMKA official_url: https://journal.uhamka.ac.id/index.php/uicell full_text_status: public publication: UHAMKA International Conference on ELT and CALL (UICELL) pagerange: 246-253 refereed: TRUE issn: 2615-2576 related_url_type: pub citation: Suharti, Dwi Sloria dan Permanasari, Nurbaiti Eka dan Ihsana El Khuluqo, Ihsana El Khuluqo (2019) PREWRITING ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING EFL WRITING. UHAMKA International Conference on ELT and CALL (UICELL). pp. 246-253. ISSN 2615-2576 document_url: http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/id/eprint/699/1/lulu-uicell.pdf