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B. Problem Identification
Due to the limited knowledge of the English language, students usually find it is difficult to learn English writing skills. This limitation of knowledge may be in
a form of lack of vocabulary mastery – which makes students too shy to express the ideas they may have. Besides, the mechanism of the learning activity holds a
great role in a successful English learning. As the writer has written above, there are many schools which still apply the traditional approach to the teaching of
writing. The approach leads students to learn how to finish writing in time before the meeting class is over. In many cases, many students who could not finish their
work still had to submit their writing as a finished product to the teacher. Consequently, the students would not acquire valuable experience in the process
of writing. There would not be a session for students to obtain feedback from the teacher and opportunities to revise their work.
Based on the situation which has been explained above, a good writing model is required to improve the students’ writing skill. There should be a new set of
writing materials which applies the Process-Based Approach to the learning activity. In designing such writing materials, there are some aspects which must
be considered. First is about the selection of materials which must reflect the relevant tasks. The materials which are used should match the students’ needs.
Second, the materials should be arranged in a step by step process approach which assists students to finish their tasks well.
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C. Problem Limitation
This study focuses on designing writing instruction materials for grade VIII students of Junior High School. The reason why students of grade VIII were
chosen is because at this grade, the students start to be given more materials which are related to their writing skills. They start to rehearse their writing skill using the
materials such as functional text, narrative text, etc. These kinds of materials will support the students to improve their writing ability only if the activities are
arranged with the appropriate approach. Besides, this study also focuses on the designing of writing materials based
on the Process-Based Approach. The reason is because this approach allows the students to learn more about writing. They learn not only to have a mere product
of their work, which is done in the traditional approach, but also the step-by-step process of completing their work. Therefore, applying this approach allows the
students to understand how to create a good writing product. At the end of the study, the designed materials will be presented without
implementing them to find out their effectiveness.
D. Problem Formulation
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