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d. The Roles of the Teacher in Teaching Writing
In teaching writing, the teacher is the important key to make the students learn well. The teacher has some roles that
should be kept in mind. According to Harmer 2007: 261, the teacher has important roles as follows:
1 Motivator
The teacher has to motivate the students when they are doing writing tasks. The teacher also has to give them
the explanation about the usefulness of the activity, and encourage them to make much effort for maximum
benefit. The teacher has to be a good motivator for the students to make them learn writing easily and happily.
2 Resource
The teacher should be ready to give as much as information that he or she could give to the students.
The teacher also needs to provide language when it is necessary. The teacher should ensure the students that
he or she is available and ready to look at their work. 3
Feedback provider The teacher should give responses to the content of the
students’ work positively. The responses should be encouragingly given.
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In addition, Harmer 2001: 41-42 said that when the teacher help the students to be better writers, he or she has many
crucial tasks to perform especially when he or she meet students who have some difficulties in writing. The tasks that the teacher
has to handle before, during, and after teaching writing to the students are described as followings:
1 Demonstrating
Teachers have to make the students have clear depiction about writing conventions and genre constraints in
specific types of reading. 2
Motivating and Provoking Teachers should help in provoking the students to have
ideas, make them enthusiastic about the value of the task, and persuade them what fun and enjoyable it can
be. 3
Supporting Teachers should support the students when they are
writing in the class and they should be ready to help the students when they find some difficulties.
4 Responding
Teachers have to respond to the students’ work. It means that they react the content and the construction of
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