Teaching Writing Strategies at The English Language Education Study Program

Abstract

Mastering writing is very important for college students because writing has many functions such as if the students want to get a scholarship overseas and if the college students favor to work in global company, and for other writing activities. Writing is still considered difficult for some students. The aim of this research is to find out the lecturers’ strategies in teaching writing at the English Language Education Study Program of Lambung Mangkurat University.

            The research used a descriptive quantitative design. The subject of this research were the lecturers in English Language Education Study Program of Lambung Mangkurat University who are teach writing. The data collected through questionnaire using google form with 14 indicator items and 5 liker scale. The researcher used the percentage procedure for conducting the data analysis procedure. The total number of the subject in this study is 3 lecturers in intermediate writing.

Based on the result of the researcher showed that brainstorming, free writing, use sentence starter and review simple sentence structures are the most used strategies. In additional, the lecturers also using media like picture or video and using real word to develop ideas and improve students’ writing skills, but with a small percentage or use it occasionally. The researcher suggested the lecturer should use different strategies that have never been used in the class that may possible to improve the students’ writing skill.