CRITICAL READING 11

A CRITICAL READING OF CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH TO TEACHING WRITING

Intan Satriani

Emi Emilia

Muhammad Handi Gunawan

Indonesia University of Education

Published by: Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics

Vol. 2 No. 1, July 2012, pp. 10-22

Teaching writing cannot be separated with the context of content. The student should be able in constructing meaningful paragraph. It will not be success if they do not understand what the context of the content itself. Furthermore, teacher should apply a creative strategy to promote students interest in writing.

According to Nydam (2000), CTL is an appropriate approach in teaching English writing. CTL emphasized in the process and content of writing. The students that have familiarity in context will be easier to deliver the message from their writing product to the reader. They know what actually readers want then, the written communication will run effectively.

According to Satriani, et al. (2012), CTL in teaching writing process was successful to improve student writing skill especially in recount text. There are some significant improvements in schematic structure, grammar, and graphic picture. They collect the data through observation, interview, and documentation. The data were analyzed qualitatively in the form of case study. This study conducted at second graders of a Junior High School in Bandung.

Based on the study above, we can also use CTL approach to teach our students to promote their literacy sense. This technique is available to be applied in senior high school where teaching writing become one of the hardest subject in English. it will open students’ mind that writing actually can be acquired easily if the teachers know the appropriate and the effective approach use in teaching process.