The Teaching of Writing: The Real Classroom Scenes at the Lower Secondary School

By Yahya Che Lah and Suzihana Shaharan.

Published by The Learner Collection

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Writing is one of the central issues in second language learning. The importance of writing is it reinforces the grammatical structures, idioms and vocabulary we have been teaching our students. When students write they also have the chance to be adventurous with the language. In order for students to achieve this ability, what must teachers consider in teaching writing? The aim of this study is to observe what transpire during the classroom teaching and learning process. This study involved two classes (3K and 3A) in a rural lower secondary school. Ten observations were conducted for each class. Documents such as teachers’ record books and respondents’ exercise books were also analyzed. The findings from these instruments will be discussed in the following subtopics: teachers’ preparations, teachers’ mode of instructions, respondents’ reception and activities, teachers’ mode of evaluation, amendments of the writing made by respondents and the summary of findings. From the findings, the researcher came to a conclusion that the teaching and learning process that had been practiced in the two classes involved in this study failed to guide and assist the respondents in acquiring the writing skills needed and thus the respondents failed to perform well in the writing component of the LSE English Language Paper.

Keywords:	Writing Proses, Teaching Writing, Pedagogy, Evaluation

The International Journal of Learning, Volume 17, Issue 3, pp.621-632. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 656.795KB).

Assoc. Prof. Yahya Che Lah

Lecturer, School Of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia

Yahya Che Lah is a lecturer at School of Distance Learning in the area of teaching and learning of language. Most of his students are school teachers undertaking their undergraduate courses. Methodology and pedagogy of language teaching is his main subject. In addition, he also taught language proficiency. He was a language teacher, before became a lecturer. He had taught in primary and secondary school. Moreover, he also had an experience for about 3 years in the secondary school as an academic administrator. Yahya experiences enhance his knowledge about the needs and the problems in the teaching and learning language either to the teachers or to the pupils. In the tertiary level, besides teaching, he involved in research. His research focuses on the teaching of writing and reading comprehension at the primary and lower secondary school.His recent research focus teaching process of writing. The aim of this study to observe what transpire during the classroom teaching and learning process of writing.

Suzihana Shaharan

Student, School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang, Malaysia

Suzihana Shaharan is a teacher at Convent Father Barre Secondray School. She has been teaching English since 1993. Now, she is continuing her Ph.D at University Malaysia.

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