Conceptual Framework

F. Conceptual Framework

Writing was a productive skill to express the ideas, feelings, opinions, and experiences of someone into words in a meaningful form and to mentally interact with the massage.

There were two important elements of writing, material and language itself. Before writing begins, someone has already been thinking about the material that writer wants to write. Not only thinking about that, There were two important elements of writing, material and language itself. Before writing begins, someone has already been thinking about the material that writer wants to write. Not only thinking about that,

There were thirteen genres of academic writing. One of them was descriptive text. Descriptive text was a piece of text describes a particular person, place, or thing. While Broad man and Jia states that descriptive text was a kind of text that used to describe what something looks like by using a good technique teaching, the teacher can introduce how to write descriptive text easily and correctly, do students can improve their writing ability. They do not have confident in writing by their own words because they are not sure with ideas, and teachers do not strategy in teaching the lesson to the students.

Dictation was technique use in both language teaching and language testing into students, with pauses during which they must try to write down what they have heard. Basically, this a technique used to know how much the students ability to recognize and identify the spoken language. The teacher just comes to the class, greets them and starts the lesson, then the teacher applies the dictation by reading a story and after the reading the teacher asks the students to rewrite the story read. As the result the student can not get the point of the dictation and the feel hard to write the story. They finally cannot improve their achievement in writing skills.

One of the alternative techniques which can be used by the teachers is dictogloss technique. Dictogloss technique was a language teaching One of the alternative techniques which can be used by the teachers is dictogloss technique. Dictogloss technique was a language teaching

a text by listening and noting down the key words of the text. As what Wajnryb says that one of the aims of dictogloss was to provide an opportunity for learners to use their productive grammar in the task of the text creation.

It means that the teacher lets the students to express their experiences on to a paper. The teacher will tell the text first, and the student should write the key note of the text. Some words in the key note are very useful because it can make students easier to compose their writing. Then the teacher will retell the text for the second, the students should create their writing based on key note that they have made.

It can help the students to write their composition easily. It also integrates the four language skills. There are listening, reading, speaking, and writing. It helps the students to case them to write their composition and gives them idea to write by using the key words. These key words will become the guidance for the students to write their composition.