A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE METHOD OF TEACHING

WRITING AND THE PROBLEM FACED BY THE STUDENTS

AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 2 GEMOLONG

IN 2007 / 2008 ACADEMIC YEAR

RESEARCH PAPER

Submitted as a Partial fulfillment of the Requirement

For Getting the Bachelor Degree of Education

In English Department

ISNA PRASETIASIH
A. 320. 040. 140

SCHOOL OF TAECHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
2008

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Teaching English in Indonesia is focused on the ability of student’s

communication. The communication can be in oral and or written forms. The

learner should be able to learn the four language skills, namely : listening,

speaking, reading and writing ( Depdiknas, 2003:6 ). The learners should have

the abilities in reading and listening to support their speaking and writing.

As one of the four language skills, writing has always occupied place in

most English language course. One of the reasons is that more and more

people need to learn to write in English for occupational or academic

purposes. English department students, especially, need to learn writing and

prepare themselves for the final academic assignment, thesis writing. This, in

terms of student’s needs, integrated writing is necessary.

Writing is one of the important skills in teaching English. It has

always occupied place in most English language course. One of the reasons is

that more and more people need to learn writing in English for occupational

or academic purpose. To write well, people must have good capabilities in

writing. More ever, someone who wants to write the essay or story must know

the steps in writing process and aspects of writing. The writer must be able to

organize the ideas to construct the sentences, to use punctuation and spelling

well. Besides, they must be able to arrange the writing into cohesive and

coherent paragraphs and text.

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Teaching method are needed in teaching – learning process, especially

in teaching writing. Methods is treated at the level of design in which the roles

of teachers learners and instructional materials are specified. The method is

theoretically related to an approach and is organizationally determined by

design ( Fauziati, 2001:5 ). Writing takes time and energy. It’s a long process.

The students usually get difficulties in starting their writing. That will cause

many students waste valuable time just for getting started. So it needs to use

appropriate method in teaching writing, in order to produce good writing. The

writer is interested in having study on the method of teaching writing applied

by the English teacher at SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Gemolong because this

school is a famous school in Gemolong. In edition, realizing that most of the

students usually get difficulties in starting their writing, the writer wants to

know the method in teaching writing.

Based on the background above, the writer decides to carry out a

research entitled " A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE METHOD OF

TEACHING WRITING AND PROBLEM FACED BY THE STUDENTS AT

SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 2 GEMOLONG ".

B. Previous Study

The previous study is done by Yuniawati ( 2002 ) who conducted a

research entitled “ Grammatical Error in Writing Made by the Third Semester

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Students of the English Department of the Teacher Training and Education

Faculty of Sebelas Maret University in 2001 / 2002 Academic Year “. Her

conclusion is that the third semester student of English Department of the

Teacher Training and Education Faculty of 11 Maret University still find

difficulties in constructing well – formed sentences.

The second previous study is done by Fitria Wulansari ( 2003 ) who

conducted a research entitled “ A Descriptive Study on the technique of

Teaching Writing Applied by the Teacher at SMA Negeri Kebakkramat in

2006 / 2007 Academic year. Her conclusion is that the objectives of teaching

writing at SMA Negeri Kebakkramat are to improve the writing competence

of the students, prepare the students to face the national examination. In

Indonesia it is called UAN and prepares the students to continue their study to

University.

Next, the previous research is “ English Teaching Learning at the

Sixth Year of SDN Gumpang I Surakarta By Hanifah Nur Rakhmawati ( 2004

). The result of her study is that the goals of the teaching are to introduce

English skill to continue to the higher level. It focused on listening, reading,

writing, speaking and vocabulary. The teacher uses text book and picture as

the material to support the activity in the classroom. The teacher has roles as a

manager, facilitator, consultant or a counselor, instructor and evaluator. The

classroom procedures consist of three parts namely engage, study and

activate. She uses observation and interview as the technique of collecting

data and she also analyses by using the descriptive qualitative method.
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Last, the previous study is done by Ratna Sari ( 2001 ) who conducted

a research entitled “ English Teaching – Learning Process at the First Year of

MTS Assalam Surakarta, An Educational Ethnography “. The result of her

study is that there are two objectives of teaching learning process at the first

year students of MTs Assalam Surakarta namely : General Instructional

Objective and Specific Instructional Objective. General Instructional

Objective of the teaching is based on the English Teaching Guideline of

Junior High School, it is the 2004 curriculum especially to the students of

Madrasah Tsanawiyah. Specific Instructional Objective is to use English for

communication. The teacher has roles as a manager, consultant, facilitator and

evaluator, a motivator and as an instructor. While the student’s are role as

subject not only the object, and as a negotiator. The classroom procedures are

teaching learning process in the classroom contains interaction between the

teacher and the students that can be seen in the activities in the classroom. She

uses observation and interview as the technique of collecting data and she also

analysis by using the descriptive qualitative method.

This research is different from the previous researches concerns with

the descriptive study of teaching writing to develop the writing skill. In this

research,the writer focuses on the method of teaching writing applied by the

teacher and problems faced by the students at SMA Muhammadiyah 2

Gemolong.

C. Problem Statement

The research concerns with the following problem statement :

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1. What are the method used by the English teacher in Teaching Writing at

SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Gemolong?

2. What problems faced by the students in learning writing at SMA

Muhammadiyah 2 Gemolong?

D. Objective of the Study

The writer has two objectives in this research. They are:

1. To know the method used by English teacher in Teaching Writing at

SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Gemolong.

2. To know the problems faced by the students in learning writing at SMA

Muhammadiyah 2 Gemolong?

E. Benefit of the Study

The result of the study will have theoretical benefits and practical

benefits.

1. Theoritically

a. The result of the research can be used as an input in the instruction

of teaching writing.

b. The result of this research can be used as the reference for those

who want to conduct a research of English teaching learning

process.

2. Practically

The result of this research will be helpful both for students and

teacher to reduce the problems in teaching and learning English in

writing.
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F. Research Paper Organization

To give a clear understanding of the study, the writer organizes these

chapters into several chapter.

Chapter I is Introduction that consists of background of the study,

previous study, problem statement, limitation of the study, objective of the

study, benefit of the study, and research paper organization.

Chapter II is Underlying Theory. It consist of notion of writing, the

process of writing, methods of teaching English, making writing interactive,

writing as process and product, problems in writing, the roles of teacher in

teaching writing, types of writing.

Chapter III is Research Method. It consists of type of research, place

and time of the research, subject and object of the study, source of data, data

collection method, and technique for analyzing data.

Chapter IV discusses the result of the research. It consists of research

finding and discussion.

Chapter V is the last chapter. It consists of conclusion and suggestion.

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