How to teach Writing Skill in Junior High School

Writing skills is one of the 4 English language skills in addition to listening, speaking and reading. Writing skills include productive or produce other than speaking skills. Writing learning in schools has not been through the correct process. Teachers often delegates the task of writing without giving proper steps to be able to produce good work.

Writing is not simply a matter of putting words together, it is a recursive process, It is a process of revision and rewriting. Teaching writing means We create a pedagogy that helps students see writing as continuous process of Revising and rewriting as They invent, plan, Their draft text.

Writing is not the only activities combine words. writing is a process repeated, namely process of revising and rewriting. Teaching writing means that we create a science education that helps students see that writing requires steps to find, plan and create a draft text.

Furthermore Carderonello and Edwards (1986:5) explain in their book Raugh Draft as follows: specify that there are five components in the process of writing, namely:
- Inventing: Namely to find and generate ideas / ideas of students, what will students write or tell, steps can find ideas in many ways such as reading, talking, brainstorming, questions, etc. mindmapping.
- Planning: the stages of how students are trying to determine how to convey ideas. This stage students will be raised the issue, purpose, reader, text structure and tone of the text to be written.
- Drafting: In this stage, students tried to form a material or materials into text. Draft sustainable written, from draft 1, draft 2 and draft 3 to be the final result.
- Revising: revise including adding a new idea, another idea of eliminating some of the words or ideas that do not need or reconstruct what has been written in the draft.
- Editing: Editing is polishing a piece of writing from various aspects such as, spelling, tenses, choice of words and others.

Using Mind Mapping In Teaching Speaking Skills at RSBI Class SMA Negeri I Sidoarjo

Mind mapping is a kind of diagram, table, or chart used to represent words, generate, visualize, and classify ideas. It also can be an aid in studying and teaching. Based on the research conducted before, the implementation of mind mapping in teaching writing was so helpful in improving student’s writing ability. Even, it was also used in teaching speaking. Because of that, there was a research that describes the teaching speaking using mind mapping in RSBI class SMA Negeri I Sidoarjo.

Based on the research, mind mapping in teaching speaking was so helpful to regulate students’ ideas and stimulates the group presenter to extend the statement using their own words. It was interesting for them, because of its simple form and relatively easy to be understood.

To gain an effective teaching speaking using mind mapping, students may get certain references or handout from the teacher related to the material, try to more pro active in getting chances to have a consultation with the teacher related to material discussed, more frequent in grammar acquisition, may suggest to more pro active in taking notes to the thing which is necessary considered and also may have each of way to implement mind mapping in teaching speaking in turn; using whole class – whiteboard as the media and using group work presentation – power point as the media; in order to avoid boredom in learning. Those are intended to enrich their knowledge and linguistic view.