Feedback Teaching Writing a. Teacher Roles in Teaching Writing

curriculum is a general statement of the goals and the outcomes, the learning arrangement, the evaluation, and the documentation related to the management of the program within educational institution. Based on the definitions of the curriculum above, it can be concluded that curriculum is the guidance for the teacher in determining his ways or strategies in doing the teaching and learning process and it is also the guidance for the students in achieving what they expect in their learning process. The Curriculum used in SMPN 6 Magelang is Curriculum 2013. According to Curriculum 2013, there are three competencies that the students are expected to reach attitude competence, knowledge competence, and skill competence. Talking about the skill competence, the students are required to be able to write several types of texts. One of the texts is a narrative text. Based on the core competence and basic competence for Grade VIII students of junior high school, they have to acquire the knowledge of a narrative text. They should write a narrative text in the form of a fable. In addition, they need to pay attention to the social function, structure, and language features of a narrative text. According to the regulation by the Ministry of Education, the core competence and basic competence of English learning at SMPMTS grade VIII are set as following: Table 1: Core Competence and Basic Competence of Writing Skills of SMPMTS Grade VIII Semester 2 The next point which needs to be highlighted in teaching writing junior high school students is the students’ age range. The age range of the students of Junior High Schools is between twelve and eighteen that is also called as puberty Brown: 2001:91. Students are in that age range categorized into a teenager. They are in the phase of the age of transition, confusion, self-consciousness, growing, and changing bodies and minds. As a result, the characteristics of teenagers stated previously will become teachers’ concerns in teaching their students. According to Brown 2001:92, one of the most important concerns of the secondary school teacher is to keep self- esteem high by 1 avoiding embarrassment of students at all costs 2 affirming each person’s talents and strengths 3 allowing mistakes and other errors to be accepted 4 de-emphasizing competition between classmates, and 5 encouraging small-group work where risks can be taken more easily by a teen. Another important thing that must be considered by teachers in teaching writing in the junior high school level is the success of teaching writing itself. The Kompetensi Inti Kompetensi Dasar 4. Mengolah, menyaji, dan menalar dalam ranah konkret menggunakan, mengurai, merangkai, memodifikasi, dan membuat dan ranah abstrak menulis, membaca, menghitung, menggambar, dan mengarang sesuai dengan yang dipelajari di sekolah dan sumber lain yang sama dalam sudut pandangteori 4.18. Menangkap makna teks naratif lisan dan tulis, berbentuk fable pendek dan sederhana penggunaannya.