EXPLORING TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD TEACHING WRITING IN EFL CLASSROOM: A CASE STUDY OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN TANGERANG

Abstract

Teachers unconsciously neglect writing as a must-have skill in 21^st century. Thus, they do not aware of designing classroom which enhance students to explore writing as a process and product. Starting from primary to tertiary level, students feel difficult to arrange their own writing even they are too focus on grammatical accuracy and afraid of accepting teachers’ feedback on their text. Some problems encountered in this research, during the process of obtaining data through questionnaire as follows: L1 interference and cultural background, low internal and external motivation, reading habits and insufficient facilities. Contrary to this belief, this research tries to highlight: how is teachers’ perception toward teaching writing for senior high school students? Are teachers aware of applying principles of teaching which are arranged by Brown (2004)?