Using Visual Aids to improve pupils' descriptive writing skill.

1. Creative Project:
Improving Students’ Descriptive Essay
Using Visual Aids
Date: 9 Dec 2017
Submit to: Dr Maslawati Mohamad
Name: Lee Yan Di GP05989
yandi91@gmail.com
GGGE 6313
Psycholinguistics and Language
Teaching

2. Major Issues
Issues
identified
among
pupils
Lacking in
motivation
Inability to
generate
ideas
Inability to
describe
vividly

3. Strategy
Lack of motivation – The need for interesting set induction.
It is observed that the pupils’ enthusiasim is high and
thus feeling more motivated in writing and the more
motivated a student, the higher the likelihood of their
efforts for success (Beeland 1992).
Using real life photographs to capture pupils’ attention
It is observed that pupils showed a higher enthusiasm
level and is more motivated

4. Pupils were told that they could mention anything
they can see in the pictures and come out with 2
simple descriptive sentences that describes the
picture .
Strategy
Inability to generate ideas – Real life photographs
serves as inspiration.
Assimilation and accommodation require an active
learner, not a passive one, because problem-solving
skills cannot be taught, they must be
discovered.(Piaget 1948)
Pupils are able to come out with 2 simple descriptive
sentences.

7. Food
&
Beverag
es

8. Sports
wear
Men &
Women

9. General Clothing (Men &
Women)

10. Women’s
Clothing
Women’s
Shoes

11. Electrical
Phones
Accessorie
s
Laptops

12. Entertainme
nt

13. Books & Stationaries

14. Strengths
Active learners
Imaginative
Lessons are easy to conduct

15. Weaknesses
Photographs dictate the type of
ideas that will be generated by the
pupils
Over enthusiastic learners.

16. Recommendations
Take pupils’ learning type into
account.
Use multiple visual aid (videos,
charts, diagrams..)

17. Thank you 