Essay About Teaching English

Teaching English at junior high school is directed to develop some communicative competencies with emphasizing on the spoken and written skills. The main target of the communicative competence is students are able to understand and produce oral and written functional text for students’ life in global world. In other words, teaching English at junior high school for all grades is oriented to the mastery on basic competence of four language skills that related to the environment namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These skills are expected to develop students’ potential in embracing the global era. They are also expected to get real experiences in learning.

Agus’s statement is correspond to the prior statement (2012: 2). He argued that since 2006 (in decentralization era) Indonesia has been implementing competency base school level curriculum based on national standard of education (content and competence standards in particular) considering the goal of a certain

Shu- Min (1993: 32) states that “writing is more difficult than teaching other language skills.” He adds that there are three difficulties of writing in English, first, students have limited knowledge of target language; second, they have little experience in reading, and third, there is cultural interference due to the difference in the style of literary and rhetorical patterns of expression in their native language and the target language. Those are the major concern for the students, especially junior high school students. They think that few skills are more important inside and outside of the class room than writing skills because they feel difficult to do that. They sometimes like to write something but they are difficult to start their idea because of their limited knowledge. When they write an English text, they usually write it in Indonesia first then translate it into English. The effect, they compose it with grammatically incorrect