X AK Students in SMK Sanjaya Pakem

13 typed into a computer p. 88. Meanwhile, writing is a mental work of creating ideas, thinking about how to express them, and arranging them into statements and paragraphs that will be understandable. Nunan, 2003, p. 88 Writing is important for people in every field, not just for the academics. Paulston and Bruder 1976 state that skill in writing is a basic necessity in the academic environment, and even the nonacademic student, who has no need to write reports and papers, will occasionally need to write letters, messages, memos, invitations, and the like pp. 204-205. Thus, writing is important to communicate to each other because it reinforces the grammatical structures, idioms, and vocabulary. Through writing, students have a chance to be adventurous with the language to go beyond what they have just learned to say and to take risks. When students are in a writing process, they necessarily become very involved with a language. Further, the effort to express ideas and the constant use of eye, hand, and brain is a unique way to reinforce learning Raimes, 1983, p. 3. According to Nunan 2003, the purposes of writing are to express and impress. People can express the ideas they have through writing. Moreover, they can also impress readers by expressing their ideas through writing. The researcher conducts this research in order to help the students to construct well-ordered compound sentences. One of the important things related to writing is “correct form of the language on the sentence level” Paulston Bruder, 1976, p. 205 or “syntax word order” Gebhard, 1990, p. 221, so the researcher focuses on the grammatical thing in writing skills. Therefore, in this 14 research, the students will be able to write good sentences by using the jumbled- word game.

b. The Methods in Teaching Writing

Raimes 1983 says that writing cannot be seen as composed of separate skills which are learned one by one. Therefore, teachers develop writing tasks that lead students to pay attention to organization, grammar, and syntax p. 8. Similar to writing, grammar itself also cannot be taught as a stand-alone set of rules Knapp Watkins, 2005, p. 40. Moreover, Knapp and Watkins 2005 reveal that grammar can be used to describe and explain how language is being used in purpose since it is a metalanguage p. 40. In this research, the researcher aims to help the students to develop their writing skills and also their awareness of grammar rules through jumbled-word game. Paulston and Bruder 1976 say that there are three major teaching points in the writing of composition, namely 1 correct form of the language on the sentence level, 2 mechanics of punctuation, and 3 content organization p. 205. Gebhard 1996 adds the common things related to writing are word choice, use of appropriate grammar i.e. subject-verb agreement, tense, and article use, syntax word order, mechanics i.e. punctuation, spelling, and handwriting, and organization of ideas into a coherent and cohesive form p. 221. Thus, there are some activities that can be done by the teacher to teach writing as stated by Gebhard 1996. One basic activity is having the students trace letters, words, and sentences. It can help the students to recognize letter and word, basic spelling, punctuation, and capitalization rules. Another activity is copying and changing;