Abstract:
The aim of this research was to find out how does the efl teacher encounter
the Chinese students in her teaching free writing at English Cours? The research
was conducted at Butterfly English Course in North Jakarta. The writer used
Narrative inquiry to explored deep qualitative data. The participant is a female
English course teacher who taught Chinese student at international class in an
English Course. The instrument used was interview with semi structure interview
to get a lot of data from her story and experience. The research found that using
free writing helped the students to find and generate ideas easier in writing
paragraph. Using mind mapping strategies which showed videos and image in
prewriting stage can also make the student have more imagination and make them
more enthusiastic in writing class. With a good approach and strategy, these
methods get positive responses from the students and after doing this method, the
results of student writing are better than before.
Keywords: (Writing, Free Writing, Assesment, Narrative Inquiry, and Mind
mapping.)