Basic-To-Basic: Answering The Challenge to Help Students Improve Their Skills in Writing

Kurniawan, Yulius (2016) Basic-To-Basic: Answering The Challenge to Help Students Improve Their Skills in Writing. In: Creativity and Innovation in LAnguage Materials Development and Language Teaching Methodology in Asia and Beyond.

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Abstract

In today's modern era. English learning tends to be characterized by the use of communicative approach. The ideal is great: enabling students engage to one another meaningfully in English. Besides being practical, the meaningfulness aspect of this approach may also result a long lasting retention. putting this approach together with proper context, this approach would often be regarded as among the best practices in English learning. Despite of the great ideals, building meaningful communication is actually a huge challenge, since it requires participating students to have a certain level of proficiency in English. Without this prerequisite, meaningful communication is unlikely to occur, Given the insufficient English Proficiency of the majority of Indonesian Students and adding their passive nature into account, meaningful communicating in English tends to results more in failure than success. However, given that communicating in English is actually the goal of learning, students are required to achieve that nonetheless. This paper aims to present basics applied in the writes writing classes to help students cope with English writing requirements. Practice shows that exercising these basics proves helpful for students to reach the English proficiency and thus improves their writing skills.

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