Teaching Writing in Junior High School

h. Teaching Writing in Junior High School

English in Indonesia becomes popular and important, so that the government obligates the subject to be taught in all stages of education. Teaching English in junior high school is very important since it is one of compulsory subjects. Besides that, teaching English in Junior High School is aimed to teach the students to achieve the functional stage, it means the students have to be able to use English to overcome problem in daily life communication both orally and written. Students of junior high school are required to understand the nature of writing and produce various functional text, monologues, and essays in the form of procedure, descriptive, recount, narrative, and report. Regarding to the text types, students of grade VIII deal with descriptive, narrative, and recount text. Teaching writing in junior high school is based on the school based curriculum KTSP. The curriculum contains standard of competence and basic competency that should be achieved in each semester. Standard of competence and basic competency is developed based on the KTSP that is based on standard of contents and standard of graduate competencies Depdiknas, 2006. Below is the table of standard of competence and basic competency of writing in junior High School in the first semester. Table 1. The standard of competence and basic competency of writing in Junior High School in the first semester. Standard of competence Basic Competence Main Material Learning 6. To express the meaning of short simple functional writtent texts and essays in the form of descriptive and recount to interact with the surrounding environment. 6.1.To express the meaning of short and simple functional writtent texts by using written language accurately, properly and acceptable to interact with the surrounding environment 6.2.To express the meaning and steps of rhetoric in the short simple essay by using written language accurately, properly and acceptable to interact with the surrounding environment in the form of descriptive and recount Short functional texts such as: - Invitation - Announcement - Short message Texts in the forms of: - descriptive - recount Randomized sentences

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