given more opportunities to apply the language by giving them practice in speaking and writing.
According to Lim in Aprilia, the purpose of teaching foreign language is enable the students to use the language to communication.
2
It means that, in learning English the teacher does not only give the students theory about English but also heshe has
time for practicing in their communication whether written or spoken through English language instruction. To achieve the target, the English teacher should be able to
motivate the students in the classroom. According to Brown, teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do something.
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It means that teaching is given instruction, guiding in studying something, providing with knowledge and causing
understanding.
B. Concept of Writing
We know that writing is one of skill in language should be mastered by the students. Besides that writing is one way to send message and information from the writer to
the reader. There are a lot of definitions about writing that have been given by some experts. According to Byrne, writing is the act of forming letters or combination of
letters: making marks on flat surface of same kind. It is more than the production of graphic symbol, just are speech is more than the production of sounds. The symbols
2
Nuri Aprilia, An Analysis of Language Mechanical Error in Paragraph Writing IAIN Lampung : unpublished Thesis, 2012, p.8.
3
H. Douglas Brown, Teaching Principle of Language Learning and Teaching London : Longman, 1980, p.5.
have to be arranged to form sentence.
4
From the definition above, it can be concluded that writing is the production of graphic symbols which have to be arranged
according to certain conventions to form meaningful words, sentences, etc. According to Lindemann writing is process of communication which uses a
conventional graphic system to convey a message to a reader.
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It means that writing is a process of sending message by using letters, punctuation, word, or sentences as
graphic system. Moreover, writing is progressive activity. It means that when you first write
something down. You have already been thinking about what you are going to say and how you are going to say it. Then after you have finished writing, you read over
what you have written and make changes and corrections. Therefore, writing is never a one-step action.
6
It means that when we write something, we must have already been thinking first because writing is never a one-step action.
Writing is also an action process of discovering and organizing the ideas, putting
them on paper, and reshaping them. Writing is much like speaking, because it is a
4
Donn Byrne, Teaching Writing Skill London: Longman Group UK, 1997, p.1
5
Erika Lindemann, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, Oxford University Press, 1983, p.11.
6
Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, Introduction to Academic Writing 3
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Ed White Plains: Longman,2007,p.15
