Conceptual Framework LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
considered as a complicated skill to acquire. Richards and Renandya 2002 state that writing is the most difficult skill for the second language learners to master.
According to the observation, writing becomes a problem for students of eighth grade of Junior High School. First, students get problems in developing
their ideas in writing a text. Second, they find difficulties in choosing the words that suitable for their writing because they have lack of vocabulary. The other
problem is the use of grammar. They still have some mistakes using the grammar. In arranging sentences, they still have some mistakes in the use of punctuation,
spelling and capitalization. One of the ways to solve the problems is by using interesting materials to
help students practice writing. Unfortunately, based on the observation in SMP N 3 Tempel, the teacher only used LKS Lembar Kerja Siswa in the teaching
learning process. In fact, the LKS which is used does not help students to develop their writing. Students feel bored to do the assignments because it only answers
the questions from the texts. It does not give students a motivation to write. Based on the explanation above, the researcher wanted to develop writing
materials for students of eighth grade of junior high school using the process of writing. The steps of process of writing are pre-writing, drafting, responding and
editing. In developing the materials, the researcher used the steps which are proposed by Jolly and Balitho in Tomlinson 1998: 98 which some
modifications. The steps consist of conducting needs analysis, writing the course grid, developing the first draft, getting expert judgment and evaluating the first
draft of the materials, also revision the first materials.
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