Making a Writing Class Interesting

 

 

Nur Mukminatien

 

 

The fact that most EFL students are not interested in writing as one of their major courses and not many teachers are willing to teach the subject indicates that the course is uninteresting. Current issues in writing instructions show that EFL/ESL learners’ performance on writing seems to be unsatisfactory although they are competent in structure. Seeking a better method and technique is necessary to solve the problems.

 

Widdowson (1979) maintains that switching the focus of attention in teaching English from the grammatical to the communicative properties of the language is important. That is why developing writing skills should be geared to students’ communicative competence. Writing ability can be developed through interactive experiences, such as class/group writing, community writing, peer editing (Ruso, 1987), and dialogue journals (Rivers, 1987).This technique proves to be more interesting to students.

 

 

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Mukminatien, N. (1991). Making a writing class interesting. TEFLIN Journal, 4(2), 129-140.

 

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