USING VARIOUS WRITING RESOURCES TO PROMOTE COLLABORATIVEATMOSPHERE IN LEARNING WRITING SKILLS

Abstract

Of the two productive skills, teaching writing skill is less frequently chosen by teachers because of time limitation and lack of student’s engagement. There is a belief that the student’s English writing skill at university level is much influenced by their skills and experiences acquired from their learning at SMA. This research aims at finding more insight of how English writing skill, and particularly the writing resources that teachers possibly use, is taught at SMA. Five English teachers at SMA 4 were given a list of 57 writing resources (adopted from Gardner, 2008) they have used and will be willing to use at class. Classroom observations were conducted to find out the uses of those writing resources. It is seen that the use of novel, film, interview result, song lyrics, folk stories, and short article were very effective in teaching writing skills. The collaboration between students and teachers and among students themselves in finding those writing resources have created positive and collaborative learning situations.