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so the students can be an active students. Appendix Interview1 From the excerpt above, it can be concluded that in English teaching and learning process, the teacher used LKS as the learning source and used the Power Point as a media to help the teaching process. LKS or additional materials help the students to improve their writing skill individually because the students can do the task at home. The teacher also stated that the limit of time in learning English based on the Curriculum 2013 obstructed the English teaching writing process. R : Bagaimana menurut Ibu mengenai buku tambahan untuk pembelajaran menulis? Topik apa yang menurut Ibu menarik? What do you think about a supplementary writing materials in teaching writing? What kinds of topic that can be interesting in the supplementary materials? T : Bagus. Latihan soal di LKS itu kurang. Topik yang terbaru misal diambil dari Jakarta Post karena materi dari buku paket sudah kuno. Penggunaan sosial media juga penting untuk mengembangkan kemampuan siswa. Good. The writing activities in LKS are less sufficient for the students. The topic should be up to date such as the article from Jakarta Post because some of the inputs in the textbook are out of date. The use of social media is also important to improve the students’ writing skill. Appendix Interview2 According to the transcript above, the recently LKS was not interesting enough, because the input materials were out of date and the tasks in LKS were not related to the use of the technology. The teacher expected that the learning materials should be more interesting because the supplementary materials were done by the students individually. The teacher also stated that the learning materials could be more in teresting if it was related to the students’ life. R : Apakah penggunaan pembelajaran Task Based mempermudah siswa dalam meningkatkan kemampuan menulis? Do the use of Task Based facilitate the teaching writing? T : Ya, Task Based sangat mempermudah siswa dalam meningkatkan kemampuan menulis karena dalam menulis, dimulai dari brainstorming, draft sebelum tulisan jadi.Sejalan dengan teori Task Based. Yes, Task Based is very facilitating the students in improving their writing ability because in learning writing, the students need to brainstorming, make an outline and the last a whole of the text. Those steps are in line with Task Based theory. Appendix Interview3 In developing the writing learning materials, the teacher agreed that Task Based facilitated the student in learning writing, because the focus of improving the writing’s skill was doing many tasks. The teacher considered that the use of Task Based theory was appropriate in learning writing since the steps of the method guided the students to learn from the easiest task to the difficult ones. The teacher also assumed that the use of the Task Based theory in developing the supplementary writing materials was a good method to help the students in improving their writing skill.