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English is an international language. It is used all over the world.For that reason, it is important for people to master English orally and in writing, in order to be able to communicate and socialize with the world community. English is the first foreign language taught at every school in Indonesia.

The Indonesian government chooses English as the first foreign language to be taught in schools and as a major subject for the students from elementary school to university students, they realize how important English in their life, so the intend to master it, in such as way that they can use that language to communicate with other people in the world. Students must master four language skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Based on the concept and function, English has the purpose to develop those four skills and also the language components: vocabulary, structure and pronunciation (in speech) or spelling (in writing) which supports students mastering well. In mastering English, students find problems dealing with language skills and language components as mentioned above.

 Most students in Indonesia consider English as a difficult subject which makes them frustrated. Many of them failed to graduate from SMP / SMA only because of their mark of English of national final examination doesn’t fulfill the requirement in at the passing grade score. That is why the Indonesian government makes efforts to find the solution of those problems. For example they change the curriculum and introducing new approaches of teaching to English teacher. They also have to consider some factors such as quality of the teacher, student interest, motivation, teaching techniques that play important roles to achieve the objective at school learning.

The writer is focusing her research on writing because writing is one of the four language skills that play a very important role in second language learning. Writing skill is?????????????????????????

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