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teaching to expose every particular material, since all methods have their advantages and disadvantages.
2.2.3.2 The Characteristics of the Seventh Grade Students at Junior High
School
The range of age Junior High School students varied between thirteen to fifteen years old. They are in the process of changing from children to adults. Puchta and
Schrats 1993: 1 comment that “the children of thirteen to fifteen seemed to be less lively and humorous than adults. They were so much less motivated, and they
presented outright discipline problems”. Harmer 1998: 39 states that “teenagers, if they were enganged, had a
great capacity to learn, a great potential for creativity, and a passionate commitment to things which interested them”.
The seventh grade students of Junior High School are between 13 to 15 years old. Based on the explanation above they like to be encouraged to respond
to texts and situation with their own thoughts and experience, rather than just by answering question and doing abstract learning activities. Teacher has to give
students task that they are able to do. It will be a supporting point for teaching them using Five-Minute activities. As a result, the seventh grade students of
Junior High School psychologically can be taught by using Five-Minute activities since it is a simplified operational model of a real life situation that provides
students with vicarious participation in a variety of roles and events. In addition, it can provide a valuable learning experience in which the student practices and
revises language in a meaningful way.
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2.3 Framework of the Present Study
2.3.1 Writing
2.3.1.1 Teaching Writing
Teaching writing in the second language classroom is very important since the students are taught to make composition in other language, not their mother
tongue. Writing is not just putting words in graphic form down. “The writing of a composition is a task which involves the students in manipulating words in
grammatically correct sentences and in linking those sentences to form a piece of continuous writing successfully communicates the writer’s thoughts and ideas on
a certain topic “ Heaton, 1975:172.
2.3.1.2 Definition of Writing
Writing is not simply drawing a range of orthographic symbols, but it actually involves a complex process where we have to use certain grammatical rule in
organizing infects. Writing is considered as means of communication and it tends to involve a thinking process from human being. When we write, we do not only
keep our purpose of writing in our mind, but we also have to think about how to organize them in the composition.
Writing has many general concepts. There are several definitions of writing that can be studied, as Meyer 2005: 2 states:
“Writing is a way to produce language, which you do naturally when you speak. Writing is communicating with others on a verbal way. Writing is also an action-
a process of discovering and organizing ideas, putting them on the paper and reshaping and revising them”.
