written and oral which are realized in four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
2.2.3.1. Listening: understanding various meanings interpersonal,
ideational, textual in various interactional spoken texts and monologue especially in form of descriptive,
narrative, recount, procedure, report, and anecdote.
2.2.3.2. Speaking:
telling various
meanings interpersonal,
ideational, textual in various interactional spoken texts and monologue especially in form of descriptive,
narrative, recount, procedure, report, and anecdote text.
2.2.3.3. Reading: understanding various meanings interpersonal,
ideational, textual in various interactional written texts and monologue especially in form of descriptive,
narrative, recount, procedure, report, and anecdote.
2.2.3.4. Writing: expressing various meanings interpersonal,
ideational, textual using rhetorical development of various written text in especially in form of descriptive,
narrative, recount, procedure, report, and anecdote. Writing is one way to communicate with other people besides
speaking, reading, and listening. The word “writing” seems to be very easy and simple to understand. However, it cannot be ignored
when a student write a paragraph, heshe should write not only semantically correct but heshe should also use correct grammar.
Teaching writing is not an easy task so that teachers have to apply some techniques or guidelines to be success –i.e. the
curriculum. By knowing the curriculum, English teachers are to manage the teaching and learning processes to reach the basic
competences or objectives of teaching English especially writing skills.
Based on the 2006 curriculum, the eighth grade students have to master basic competences of writing skill, such as:
1. Students are able to complete a short essay in form of
descriptive text. 2.
Students are able to complete a short essay in form of recount text.
3. Students are able to arrange jumbled sentences into a good
paragraph in form of descriptive text. 4.
Students are able to arrange jumbled sentences into a good paragraph in form of recount text.
5. Students are able to create a simple text in form of descriptive
text. 6.
Students are able to create a simple text in form of recount text.
2.2.4. The
