Writing Skills The Nature of Writing

14 Harmer 2001: 261 proposes three teachers roles during the writing teach and the learning process. The first role is that the teacher becomes a motivator for the students. In this role the functions of the teacher are to motivate the student and to create the beneficial condition for the students in composing the writing. The teacher also persuades the students of the usefulness of this activity and the last encourage them to give the best effort to get the best result. The second role of the teacher in the writing learning process is a resource. The teacher should give the students some information to be their input in order to enrich their knowledge in composing their writing. Offering the advice and suggestion is needed to be done by the teacher too. Finally, the last role is feedback provider. This role is very important for the students. In this role, the teacher should give the correction about the writing of the students, and give them appropriate feedback based on the students need to write. Writing is one of the four language skills. That means it involves producing language rather than receiving it. Very simply, writing involves communicating a message something to say by making signs on a page. Writing involves several sub skills. Some of these are related to accuracy, i.e. using the correct forms of language. The essences of teaching are guiding and facilitating students to work. This is supported by Brown 2000: 7 who proposes that “teach is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, and setting the conditions for 15 learning”. It implies that teaching cannot be separated from learning. When teachers teach writing to students, they do not only teach how to develop ideas in writing, but they also teach how to write. English sentence grammatically and systematically. Hence, teaching writing depends on the teachers’ ability being improved. Kimble and Garmezy in Brown 2000: 7 argue that learning is a relatively permanent change in behavioral tendency and learning is the result of reinforced practice. It means that in teaching writing, the teachers have to slow and help students to learn how to write, give instructions, guide students in writing, provide students to understand how to write effectively. Teaching writing for the eighth grade of Junior High School has to be done well because English is one scope compulsory subjects that has to be taught for students of junior high school level. Teaching English to students of junior high school is presenting writing since they meet English for the first time. English learning in junior high school is targeted to make students reach the functional level that is to communicate written and orally in solving daily problems. One scope of English learning at junior high school is that students can understand and produce a short functional texts and short essay on the form of procedure, descriptive, narrative, and recount Depdiknas, 2006 Writing is one of the some aspects that students have to master. In teaching writing, teachers need to have interesting strategies. It can attract the students to give more attention about the material. Teachers also have to create the best