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4. Reasons for Teaching Writing
Harmer 1998:79 mentions that some reasons for teaching writing to the students of English as a foreign language which include reinforcement, language
development, learning style and writing as a skill.
a. Reinforcement
Some students acquire a language in a purely oralaural way, but others benefit greatly from reading the written language. The visual , oral and
demonstration of language construction are valuable for students’ understanding in writing such as their how sentences all fits together and
as an aid to commit the new language shortly after they have studied it.
b. Language Development
The actual process of writing helps students in acquiring a language because the process demands students to think and choose the sentences as
well as the words that they will use to express their ideas. This mental activity that students go through in order to construct proper written texts
is regarded as an ongoing learning experience.
c. Learning Style
Some students are fantastically quick at picking up language just by looking and listening. For the rest of us, it may take a little longer. For
manylearners, the time to think things through, to produce language in a slower way, is invaluable. Writing is appropriate for such learners. It can
also be quite reflective activity instead of the rush and bother of interpersonal face-to-face communication.
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d. Writing as a Skill
The most important reason for teaching writing is because it is regarded as language skill which is equally important as speaking, listening and
reading. Students need to know how to write letter, how to put written reports together, they need to know some of writing’s special convention
such as punctuation, paragraph construction and so on, just as they need to know how to pronounce spoken English appropriately.It could be said that
writing is an important language skill. It is a productive skill that shows how skilful the student is in writing and discovering the talented students
in this field. In addition, writing is medium that is used by students to express their ideas or thoughts on the paper.
5. Part of writing process
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