Teaching Writing THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

6. Epics or Historical Movie Epics include costume dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or period pictures that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop. Epics take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by grandeur and spectacle, dramatic scope, high production values, and a sweeping musical score. 7. Horror Movie Horror movie can also be related to suspense movies. They are dominated by elements of horror, shock, suspense, disgust, and terror. 8. Musical or Dances Movie Musical or dance movie is the type of film where features songs that are sung by actors and dancing which are interwoven into the narrative. Major subgenres include the musical comedy or the concert film. 9. Science Fiction Movie Sci-fi films movie often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters. 10. War Movie War and anti-war movie acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting against nations or human kind on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. 11. Western Movie Western movie is one of the classic movie kind and American literary. It is art works of not only movies, but in literature, sculpture, TV, shows and painting. It also tells about the romanticized tales of the American West.

c. Movie as Audio Visual Aids in Teaching Writing

Writing is one of productive skills that must be learnt in a language classroom. Learners engaged in a productive task become very frustrated when they do not have the word or the grammar they need to express themselves. In teaching learning process, teachers are expected to make it more interesting through the medium used. Movie is one of the media that can be used in teaching writing, especially in writing narrative text. According to Arsyad, movie or film has some features. One thing is movies can arouse students interest. 39 By using movie, the teacher can give new atmosphere in their class so that the students have a big enthusiasm in teaching learning process, besides visual aid can help students master the material that the teacher gives to them.

d. Using Movie in Language Learning

Teachers play a key role in the success or failure of any movies used in the language classroom. The teachers select the movie that will be used, relates the movie to students‘ needs, promotes active viewing and integrates the movie with other area of curriculum. In using movie in the classroom language teaching, there are three stages of activity that the teachers should do: 40 1 Previewing activities. This stage prepares students to watch the movie by connecting their background knowledge to the theme used, stimulating students‘ interest in the topic, and lessening their fear of unfamiliar vocabulary by preparing the vocabulary that is being used in the movie. For the example, students are told by their teacher that they will see a scene showing a man buying a plane ticket at an airport and are asked to write down five items under each of two headings: Sights things they expect to see and Words words they expect to hear. 39 Arsyad, op. cit., p. 15. 40 Richards and Renandya, op. cit., p. 366.