by having more than one person working on a text, and the generation of ideas is frequently more lively with two or more people involved than it is
when writers work on their own. 5 Building the writing habit
Teachers need to help students build the writing habit so that they recognise writing as being normal part of classroom practice and they
come to writing tasks with as much enthusiasm as they do other activities. 6 Writing-for-learning and writing-for-writing
Writing-for-learning is the kind of writing that teachers do to help students learn language or to test them on language. While writing-for-writing is
the kind of writing that teachers do to make students use language in producing a text.
7 The roles of the teacher Teachers have some roles like as motivator, resource, and feedback
provider. Teachers act as motivator when they must motivate the students, create the right conditions for the generation of the ideas, persuade them of
the usefulness of the activity, and encourage them to make as much efforts as possible for maximum benefit. Then, teachers act as resource because
they should be ready to supply information and language when necessary. Teachers act as feedback provider because they should respond positively
and encouragingly to the content of what the students have written. A number of different approaches to teach writing have been
mentioned above but teachers need to apply the appropriate approaches in
teaching writing based on the students. Teachers are the people that know more about their students’ ability and condition so that they can choose the right
approaches to be applied in teaching writing.
3. Teaching Writing in Senior High School
Based on Standard of Competence and Basic Competence of Curriculum 2006, the learning of English should be developed equally both oral
and written. That curriculum also states that the major aim of the English lesson at senior high schools is to make the students have certain abilities as follows:
1 Developing the communicative competence both written and oral to achieve the informational literacy level.
2 Having senses about the importance of English to increase the nation competitive ability in the global society.
3 Developing the students’ understanding about the relationship between language and culture.
Meanwhile, it is stated that Standard of Graduate Competence of English PERMENDIKNAS No 23, 2006 for each level is communicative competence in
the form of spoken language accompanying action for elementary schools, in the form of spoken and written for achieving a functional literacy level for junior high
schools, in the form of spoken and written for achieving some informational literacy level for senior high schools. Teaching writing for students of senior high
schools is important because English is one of the compulsory subjects that has to be taught for students of senior high schools. It is also one of
the skill that is being examined in the National Examination. English learning in senior high schools is targetted to make the students reach informational level to
communicate both spoken and written. One scope of English learning at senior high schools is that students can understand and produce a short functional text
and short essays in the form of procedure, descriptive, recount, narrative, report, news item, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, spoof, explanation,
discussion, review, public speaking. Depdiknas, 2006 In this research, the materials which are given to the students are based on
the standard of competence of the School-Based Curriculum. The standard of competence for writing at senior high school in the first semester of the eleventh
grade is presented below.
Table 1: Standard of Competence and Basic Competence of Writing
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6. Mengungkapkan makna dalam teks tulis
fungsional pendek dan esei sederhana berbentuk recount, narrative, dan
procedure dalam konteks kehidupan sehari-hari
6.1 Mengungkapkan makna dalam bentuk teks tulis fungsional
pendek misalnya pengumuman, iklan, undangan dll. resmi dan tak
resmi dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar
dan berterima dalam konteks kehidupan sehari – hari
