Creating Writing Activities to Encourage Secondary Students to Enjoy Writing

 

 

Eni Husnanaeny

 

 

Most secondary school students would rather do activities other than writing. They don’t enjoy writing because they worry about expressing their ideas clearly within the boundaries of correct usage, grammar, and punctuation. Some teachers (in Indonesia) believe that they have taught writing and have developed students’ ability to write if the students are assigned to copy two or three paragraphs of a text. On one level this may be true. But the important thing is how to get students ideas down on paper without their worrying too much about mistakes they might making. We realize that writing is the most difficult activity of the four language skills. As teachers, we should give the students activities which they enjoy. We have to create an environment where the writing required if of a type used in real life and we need to make the writing lesson come alive by selecting topics that interest them. This paper will take the form of a practical approach to how such an environment can be created and what techniques can be used by the teacher.

 

 

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Husnanaeny, E. (2004, April). Creating writing activities to encourage secondary students to enjoy writing. Paper presented at the RELC International Seminar on Approaches to Reading and Writing Instruction, Singapore.

 

 

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