STUDENTS' PROBLEMS AND NEEDS: FACTORS IN DEVELOPING ESSAY WRITING TEACHING MATERIALS AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UNP

Abstract

This article presents a part of a study conducted to develop teaching material for Essay Writing Course on Process Genre-Based Approach. The result described here is the students' problems and needs in rvriting an essay text. It r.vas a descriptive study to see students' problems and needs in writing an essay text. The data were taken from the questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed to the students rvho have taken Essay Writing Course. It was found that the problems were in pre-writing activities; the level was high, whilst writing activities; the level was average, post-writing activities; the level was high, and in aspect of grammar and mechanics; the level was high. In addition, students'need in rvriting text was high, It was represented from the input, kinds oftexts, kinds oftopics, and kinds ofexercises.