GENRE-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING MODEL IN TEACHING WRITING SKILLS FOR ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS

摘要

Writing is one of the language skills belongs to the productive skill. It is the most difficult skill because it is much more complex than the others. This is true since writing as thinking process where the learners must obtain ideas and manage ideas. Therefore, writing skill needs a special learning model for students. One of the approaches which are considered suitable to be implemented in teaching writing especially for teaching genre is genre-based language learning. Genre-based language learning is proposed to enable the learners to write a language linguistically accurate and socially appropriate. English teachers realize that writing is an important skill that foreign language learners need to develop. It is generally agreed that writing is the most difficult skill to master for foreign or second-language learners. There are four stages of teaching English using genre-based language learning; Building Knowledge of Field (BKOF), Modeling of Text (MOT), and Joint Construction of Text (JCOT), and Independent Construction of Text (ICOT).