Component of Writing Ability

In teaching writing, the teacher has important roles to help students to express their idea, opinion, and their feeling in written form by letting and guiding the students. Moreover, when teacher uses writing to reinforce and extend teaching in the content areas, they can support their students throughout the process by intentionally scaffolding their instruction so that students are given an opportunity to make sense of the content in intellectually challenging ways. 15 It means that the teacher has important roles to guide the students in writing activity to expand their knowledge, and then the teacher has to support their students in teaching writing process. To teach writing teacher can choose one of the types writing class performance, which is the best one that can be applied in herhis class. Brown states that there are five types of writing class performance: 1. Imitative or writing down Beginning level of learning to write, students will simply “writing down” English letters, words, and possibly sentences in order to learn to convention of the orthographic code. 2. Intensive or controlled Writing is sometimes used as production mode for learning, reinforcing, or testing grammatical concepts. This intensive writing typically appears in controlled, written grammar exercise. This type of writing does not allow much, if any, creativity on the part of the writer. 15 Jim Burke, Op. Cit, p. 9 3. Self writing As significant proportion of classroom writing may be devoted to self-writing or writing with only the self in mind as an audience. 4. Display writing It was noted earlier that writing the second curricular context is a way of life. For all language students, short answer exercise, essay examinations, and even research reports will involve an element of display. 5. Real writing While virtually every classroom writing task will have an element of display writing in it, the same classroom writing aims at the genuine communication of messages to an audience in need of those messages. There are subcategories illustrate how reality can be injected: 1. Academic 2. Vocationaltechnical 3. Personal 16 Another way to model writing is to have students analyze the characteristic of a particular genre of writing. 17 It means an English teacher must guide the students in writing, in which the material presented are relevan for necessity of the students. In this case, researcher use procedure text as a material for the students. 16 H. Douglas Brown, Teaching by Principle an Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy, Longman: Pearson Edition, 2 nd Edition, 2001, pp. 343-346 17 Ibid, p. 9