questions, the students were allowed to choose more than one answer. Some of the students expected that they were able to write a text correctly. It can be seen
that 36 of the students chose “c”. The rest of the students preferred to compose a text based on the picture or the story. Based on the table, in the questions
number 4, there were 10 students chose “c”. It means that most of the students
want to be able to write a text correctly and they improve their writing skill by composing a text based on the picture or the story. It can be concluded that in
learning writing, the students want to write correctly and they want to learn writing from the picture or the story.
3 Input Table 4.4 :The Result of Questions Number 4,5,12, and 13
No. Question Item
N 4.
What kinds of writing materials do you want to
have?
A. short story 17
39
B. picture 10
23 C. article
9 20
D. games of writing 8
18 5.
How do you compose an English text?
A. composing
a whole text in Bahasa
Indonesia and
translating in English 4
16
B. writing an outline in Bahasa Indonesia
and translating
in English
9 36
C. writing an outline in
English then
composing a whole text
2 8
D. composing
a whole
text in
English directly 10
40
12. Do you interested in an
authentic text
for learning English such as
advertisement, newspaper’s
article, manual book, and etc?
A. very interesting 12
48
B. interesting 4
16 C. quite interesting
9 36
D. not interesting 13.
How important
is learning
grammar in
composing a text?
A. very important 14
56
B. important 11
44 C. quite important
D. not important
The questions number 4, 5, 12, and 13 was aimed to find the information about kinds of input that the students need. The students can choose more than 1
answer in certain questions. In deciding the writing learning materials, the students were prefer comprehend the short story to understand the newspaper’s
article. In order to improve the students writing skill, the question was also to find out the students learning writing method in the input aspect. Based on the table
above, 40 students were preferred write an English text directly to make the text outline.
The input of writing materials was not only focused on the text and the learning method but also the text authenticity and the language focus of the text.
There were 12 students who were very interested in learning writing from the authentic text such as an advertisement, article and etc. The students assumed that
