some problems faced in developing writing

Some problems faced by students in developing their writing skill:

As an English teacher in Junior High School, I have noticed some problems faced by my students in developing their writing skills, such as lack of vocabulary, frequent grammar mistakes, lack of ideas, since my school is in the rural and most of their family background are farmers, workers, and labors in abroad. Most of them have low motivation since most of them lived with their grandmother and their grandfather, lack of cares from their parents The fourth parts above to be the most fundamental problem faced by my students.

As a professional teacher, I should develop a solution(s) to overcome it. Of course, it is not easy since there are many factors should be face but anyhow, as a teacher, I should do the best thing to my students. Before I start to do on the writing process, I always prepare the media that we are going to write, there are so many media that can used as the way of teaching writing.

I would like to take one of the example when I teach recount text by using personal photographs for my students.  Personal photograph is more natural since it look like a real  object with a bright and sharp color. It is surely more exciting for the students since the photograph used is their own. The students can look at themselves in the photographs. Moreover, it is certainly more value for the students because they can tell their own experience based on the photographs.

Planning is any activity in the classroom that encouraged students to write because it stimulate students for getting started. By  giving attention to their photograph, it can change the students from having blank mind toward generating ideas and gathering information for writing recount. The techniques that usually I used in pre writing are brain storming and clustering.

After finishing the process of generating ideas, the students will have drafting. In this stage, I guide the students to focused on the fluency of writing, focused more on getting the ideas down on the paper and are not too concerned with the grammatical accuracy.

The third stage is revising. In this stage, I guide the students reexamines what was written to check how effectively they have communicated their ideas, especially dealing with the content and the organization of ideas. It can be deleting, adding, reorganizing, or modifying or even throw away the ideas that are not relevant to the topic.

After concerning with the content and organization of the ideas, I guide students to turn his/her attention to the form of writing. Editing deals with the problem in grammar, syntax, word choice, and mechanics. In this case, students are guided to edit the sentence that are not clear then check to make sure grammatically and mechanically correct. Guide students to read and revise again and again until we consider that it is good enough.

The students is now ready to send the recount text to the audiences/readers.