The Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching Writing by using Dictogloss

researcher and writing teachers. Some researchers use technique to collect initial thinks and ideas on a topic, often a prelimenary to formal writing. In free writing one written sentences to form a paragraph about whatever comes to mind. The students will write without regard to spelling, grammar,etc., and will make no corrections. If the student reaches the point when they cannot think anything to will write, they write that they can not think of anything, until they find another line of thinking. At time, the student may also do a focus on free write, letting choose the topic structure their thinking. Expending from the topic, the thinking may stray to make connection and create more abstract views on the topic. This technique will help the researcher explore a particular subject before putting ideas into a more basic context. In conclusion, free writing is an activity in which you write freely about a topic because you will look for a specific focus. It is a simple process that is the basic for other discovery techniques. Free writing is all the thinking process, not about a product or a performance for a student or writer.

2. Procedures of Teaching Writing Using Free Writing Technique

There are some procedures of teaching writing using free writing technique in as follows: 39 39 Ibid 1. Write the topic at the top of your paper. 2. Write as much as you can about the topic until you run out of ideas. Includes such supporting items as facts, details, and examples that come into your mind about the subject. 3. After you have run out of ideas, reread your paper and circle the main ideas that you would like to develop. 4. Take that main idea and free writing again.

K. Frame of Thinking

As we know that learning English means not only learn the nature of language but also how to use it to communicative. In Indonesia, English is a foreign language which is used as means of getting the knowledge and international relation. Therefore, the function of English is very important. So, English has been taught started from elementary school up to university. Writing skill of the eleventh grade students at SMA Karya Mataram still needs to be developed. This situation is caused by several reasons; one of them is dealing with the media that are given in writing class. The teaching technique may not be appropriate with what students want. This situation may lead students have less passion to learn. They only learn writing to complete their duty as students who learn English. They do not have more expectations about their writing. Students