situations for them to develop ideas. The teacher should persuade and encourage them to work on their writing.
2. Resource
Being a resource means that the teacher must be ready to supply information and language to assist students. Shehe also offers advice and suggestion in a
constructive and tactful way.
3. Feedback provider
The last teacher’s role in the process of writing is feedback provider. The teacher is
expected to give feedback on students’ writing positively and encouragingly. This role refers to how shehe gives respond to the content of what
they have written. The feedback given to them must be based on what their needs at their levels of proficiency.
As summary, the teacher is required to be able to perform those roles in the process of writing. Shehe has to be responsible in guiding and facilitating
students’ writing by being a good motivator, resource and feedback provider. Roles of the teacher will support students to be better writers.
5. Teaching of Writing at the Junior High School
Talking about teaching of writing at the junior high school, there are several relevant matters that need to be highlighted. First, it involves the curriculum
implemented in the teaching and learning process at the junior high school. According to Curriculum 2013, there are three competencies that students are
expected to reach.
1. Attitude competence 2. Cognitive competence
3. Skill competence Related to the skill competence, students are required to be able to write
several types of texts. Based on the core competence and basic competence for Grade VIII of junior high school, they have to acquire the knowledge of a
narrative text. They should write a narrative text in the form of a fable and pay attention to the social function, structure, and language features. The table below
shows that the narrative text, particularly a fable, is one of texts that should be mastered by junior high school students.
Table 1: Core Competence and Basic Competence of Writing Skills for Grade VIII Junior High School Semester 2
According to Anderson and Anderson 1997, a narrative is a piece of text that tells a story and has purposes to entertain or inform the reader or listener. It is
a story of a series of events. The language features of narrative texts according to Anderson and Anderson 1997 are: specific characters, time words that connect
events to tell when they occur, verbs to show the actions that occur in the story, and descriptive words to portray the characters and setting.
Kompetensi Inti Kompetensi Dasar
4. Mengolah, menyaji, dan menalar dalam ranah konkret menggunakan,
mengurai, merangkai, memodifikasi, dan membuat dan ranah abstrak menulis,
membaca, menghitung, menggambar, dan mengarang sesuai dengan yang
dipelajari di sekolah dan sumber lain yang sama dalam sudut pandangteori
4.18. Menangkap makna teks naratif lisan dan tulis, berbentuk fable pendek
dan sederhana penggunaannya.
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