Language Skill

The fourth or the last language skill that pupils must master it is writing. Writing is very important in our daily life. It’s like a soul. According to Lord Byron, “if I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As so that regular, uninterrupted love of writing, I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain”. From that, we can see that writing is valuable and important. At school, teachers must deliver this skill to their pupils and there are many activities that teachers can do to deliver this skill. The first activity that teachers can do is write a composition based on the picture series. Firstly, teachers give pupils a series of picture. Teacher let the pupils write simple sentences based on the picture series given. Before this, teachers give some example. Teachers also show the pupils one sentence that the pupils can understand. After the pupils finished write a short essay, teachers ask pupils to come out and write the story on the blackboard. Teachers can give some guided about the grammar usage.

The second activity for developing writing skill is describing a process. This activity must fully guided by the teacher. Firstly, the teacher puts up the pictures illustrating the process, including a list of materials. As an example,the process to make a paper necklace. The materials are a tube of glue, a glass-headed pin and the others. Then, teacher questions pupils to elicit sentences about the pictures. He then puts up a jumbled list of sentences describing the process. For example, “put some glue on the last inch from the point of triangle and finish rolling up the bead”. Then, pupils select sentences from the list of sentences provided. These sentences are read aloud as the teacher points to the pictures. After that, pupils write the sentences in the correct order describing the process. When pupils can write the sentences in correct order, it’s sure that the pupils understand this skill.

Besides that, the teacher also can use an origami book activity. Through this activity, teacher must teach the pupils the way to provide an origami book. Pupils can write the story on this book based on the previous story that they had learn before. After they write, the teacher must let the pupils to write on the blackboard. The teacher can evaluate the pupils understanding when the pupils are able to write the story correctly. Besides that, teachers can make a competition for the origami book. For example, the pupils must write the proverbs on the origami book using the handwriting. Here, teachers can assess the handwriting to decide the winner.

As a conclusion, these four language skills have consequences on each other. So, the pupils need to master all these language skills and the teachers need to deliver their skills to the pupils through the suitable activities. The teachers also can use good materials and create a good learning environment in the classroom. Besides that, pupils must take part in all the activities that teachers do, so that, it’s easy for them to understand each language skills. The teachers need to guide the pupils.