Analysis of Students’ Point of View Regarding to Writing Skill at English Education Section of IAIN Bukittinggi

Abstract

Writing skill has been widely known among students as one of challenging skills in English. It is categorized challenging since writing involves many aspects, such as grammar, vocabulary, spelling, cohesion, content, organization of ideas and the L1 interference. This research aims to explore students’ points of view related to writing skill. It aims to analyze students’ points of view regarding to some elements that may influence students’ acquisition in writing. They are students’ view of writing role, the way the lecturer teaches, media used in teaching, strategy used in teaching, learning resources and students’ difficulties in writing lesson. The research was conducted under mixed method research design. The data of the research were collected through questionnaire and interview. The population the research was students at the second year of English education section academic year 2019/2020 for about 115 students and 69 were chosen as the respondent of this research. The finding showed that mostly students agree that writing skill is an important skill in English. Besides, the students opined that there were many aspects that hamper their writing learning process, such as the media used, teaching strategy used by lecturer, and learning resources. Additionally, the students also argue that there 4 elements of writing which become high problems in their writing skills; they were grammar, vocabulary, cohesion and L1 interferences. This research is expected give contribution to help the educators to plan and design a better model for teaching writing.