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
focusing a linguistic aspect such as grammar was also important. It can be shown that there were 56 of the sudents who stated that learning grammar was very
important to minimalize the grammatical error in composing a work. 4 Topic
Table 4.5 : The Result of Questionnaire Number 6 No. Question
Item N
6. In your opinion, what kind
of writing materials topics that you like the most?
A. Daily
life school life, family,
and etc
22 58
B. Health 2
5 C. Nature
5 13
D. Economic and socio-cultural
9 24
The aim of this question was to find the information about the students preference for the topic of the materials. In this question, the students can choose
more than one answer. There were 58 students chose the daily life topic which was related to the school life, family and etc. Moreover, the topic affected the
students’ interest in learning writing materials beacuse it was used in every chapter in the supplementary writing materials.
5 Materials Table 4.6 : The Result of Questionnaire Number 7,8,9, and 15
No. Question Item
N