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The genre process approach does help teachers to unite all writing elements, and it relates strongly to real-life situation, motivating students and
preparing them to write outside the classroom.
2.2.5 Teaching Writing at Junior High School
The uses of writing in junior high school should be known by both the teacher and students. Scott cited in Shrum and Glisan 2000: 224 stated that learners need to
know the difference between using writing as a tool for communicating messages to others e.g., notes, letters, e-mail messages and using writing as an academic
exercise in order to learn content e.g., writing an essay about cultural comparisons. The conclusion of the statement is there are two uses of teaching
writing, the first is writing as a tool for communicating messages to others, and the second is writing as an academic exercise in order to learn content.
Furthermore, the purposes of writing at Junior High School are as a support skill and as a communicative skill.
2.2.6 School-based Curriculum
Indonesia has already implemented nine curricula known as the 1950 curriculum, 1958, 1962, 1968, 1975, 1984, 1994, 2004, 2006 curriculum which is also known
as the “Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan” KTSPand the newest one 2013 curriculum which has already been being implemented in many schools.
According to this curriculum, English is acquainted to students since fourth grade of Elementary School. In addition, this subject is taught from the seventh grade of
Junior High School until the twelfth grade of Senior High School and Vocational School. Moreover, the contents of the curriculum encompass four skills of
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language learning listening, speaking, reading, and writing Pusat Kurikulum, 2006. The difficulty level of the materials is adjusted with the grade. The
examples of the materials are interpersonal and transactional conversations, short functional text, and some text types. These kind of materials should be taught in
both Junior and Senior High School. However, they are different in the matter of the level of difficulty. The materials in Junior High School are of course not more
complex than those in Senior High School.
2.2.7 Definition of Media
