Jannah, Raudlatul (2010) The Content of Students’ E-mails to Ashleigh Sayer as Native English Teacher as A Way to Understand Genre. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Raudlatul Jannah, 2010, The Content of Students’ E-mails to Ashleigh Sayer as Native English Teacher as A Way to Understand Genre, Thesis, English Department Islamic Education Faculty. Advisors: (I) Dr. Anang Syaifuddin, MA, (II) Ridha Fadillah, M. Ed. This research is about the analysis of students’ e-mails to Ashleigh Sayer as Native English Teacher as a way to understand genre. Research questions are; 1) what are various functions of students’ e-mails to Ashleigh Sayer as an English teacher, 2) what are the tones, language features, and letter structures that students use to e-mail the teacher, and 3) what are the implications for teaching writing and genre. Based on the problem formulations, this research is intended to know and describe the various functions of students’ e-mails, the use of tones, language features and letter structure, and the implications for teaching writing and genre. The subjects of this analysis are thirty students’ e-mails at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin to Ashleigh Sayer. The object of this research are the functions of students’ e-mails, the use of tones, language features and letter structures on students’ e-mails, and the implication of the analysis for teaching writing and genre. The result of the research shows that students’ understanding of how to write and send an e-mail to teacher especially for Native English Teacher is low. This is due to their lack of understanding and mastery of the various tones, language features, and letter structures that should be used when sending e-mails to a teacher. This findings imply that to teach genre in writing courses will help students to; 1) focus to what they want to inform to their teacher, 2) express their opinion about anything whether it is descriptive, argumentative, narrative, etc., and 3) write the text clearly and grammatically correct. The results of this research suggest that English teachers should teach more and explain clearly to the students about how to be a good writer of genre with some examples and exercises to help them in sharing their ideas and increase their writing ability.

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