1. The Study on Writing Ability of First Year Students of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru in Develop Fluency
through Free Writing Activities
1.1 THE BACKGROUND
Currently in Indonesia, English course is the most popular by the learners in high schools and
universities. English course, have the several skills to be ruled like listening, speaking, reading,
structure and writing. In this case, writing skill is not easy to master by students especially in made
some paragraph. Writing is the one of English skill that should be increase by the learners with often
to do free writing by themselves. And the evidence proof almost 60% (out of 30-40 Students) of
second year students in SMAN 12 Pekanbaru were so lack in writing skill after the teacher gave an
exercise to made some of narrative paragraph to know they are ability in writing. Furthermore, free
writing should be acceptable and applied to solve the students’ problems in writing. With as often as
doing free writing, students’ skill is so really expected increase to make well paragraph without no
doubt anymore.
Free writing is the one of popular methods during the late 1960s and early 1970s (Fox &
Suhor, 1986) to improve writing fluency of the writers. Accordingly Elbow and Belanoff (2000), free
writing defined as writing with any ideas or thoughts and that come to the writer mind in given no
time period without stopping. To beginning the free writing, the students can develop they are
writing skills by makes the narrative paragraph, announcement, essay paragraph and writing
procedure. But to start, the writers’ should be determine the main idea which can be related by the
experience of themselves.
1.2 THE SETTING OF THE PROBLEM
It has been discussed at the first paragraph before and was found that almost 60% (out of 30-
40 Students) of the second year students in SMAN 12 Pekanbaru were so lack in writing skill’s after
the teacher gave an exercise to the students to make well narrative paragraph. As a result, most of
them have several factors that makes the students cannot well in writing. Such factors occurred can
be due to the following factors:
Firstly, to make the well paragraph the students must thought about the main idea to
developing the solid paragraph. But for the beginner, to find out the main idea is so
hard. This is why to write well paragraph becoming not easy by the students.
Furthermore, the tutor or the teacher should giving the sample of main idea and tell to
the students to get the main idea, can followed the experiences by themselves.
2. Secondly, is for choosing the word have confusion while the students write down the
paragraph.
The last problems is grammatical error occur while the students tried to made the well
narrative paragraph for example.
1.3 THE LIMITATION OF THE PROBLEM
Based on the problem above, there are problems that faced in teaching and learning for
writing skill of second year students in SMAN 12 Pekanbaru to makes some well paragraph by the
students there. Furthermore, the researcher tried to used free writing method to the students which
part the free writing is a brainstorming activity of the writer to choose the topic free and it mean the
free writing is directed to generate as many ideas as possible as writer can write down without
worrying about appropriateness, grammatical structure, spelling, and logical.
1.4 THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM
How good free writing can increase the ability of the students of second year students at
SMAN 12 Pekanbaru to make the well sentence or solid paragraph?
1.5 HYPOTHESIS
Ho: Free Writing cannot increase the writing ability of the second year students of SMAN 12
Pekanbaru.
Ha: Free Writing can increase writing ability of the second year students of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru.
1.6 THE OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH
The objectives of this research can be followed such as: (a) to find out the basic of students
ability in writing before the free writing activities being applied; (b) to prove the strengths and the
weakness of students’ ability as an approach in the teaching-learning of writing skill; and (c) the ways
by the researcher to know percentage of students ability in write down the well paragraph after free
writing activities being applied.
1.7 THE NEEDS OF THE RESEARCH
This research is expected for the teachers can use free writing as the helping process to
increase students’ ability actually in writing skill. And for the students doing process of free writing
3. can more pleasurable to write down narrative paragraph, essay paragraph and absolutely free
writing can helping the students to write thesis writing if the students continued they are scholars
program for further educational.
1.8 THE DEFINITION OF THE TERMS
The key-word available the title can be define as the following:
a) Increasing is a rise in the number, level, or amount of something (Collins Co build Essential
English Dictionary, 1989). In this paper, increasing refer to the rise of the students ability of
SMAN 12 Pekanbaru to write down the solid paragraph and understand what they are write
actually.
b) Ability is the quality or skill that someone has in order to do an activity (Collins Co build
Essential English Dictionary, 1989). In this paper, ability can be known while the students of
SMAN 12 Pekanbaru have been success to write the solid paragraph and understand what
they are write.
