TEACHING WRITING TEXTS THROUGH COMPARE-DIAGNOSE-OPERATE STRATEGY FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

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Abstract

Writing is an important ability that must be owned by the students in English learning process at senior high school. Based on the writer’s experience during teaching practice at Senior High School 5 Balaibaru, Padang, the writer found the problems that some students were not able to write the texts in good order. They tended to have mistakes like; generic structure and language feature. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a strategy that is expected to assist teachers in overcoming problems in teaching (writing) and can increase student’s ability. Compare-Diagnose-Operate strategy is applied in whilst teaching. It begins with a teacher who gives a text to students and students read the text and understand. Then, students will find and determine errors in text. Next, the students will underline the mistakes and fix them. The last, the students rewrite the text in their exercise books. In a practice, the implementing of Compare-Diagnose-Operate strategy will involve students actively in the learning process and then creating a pleasant atmosphere. Thus, the objective is achieved with good learning process.

Key words: writing, compare, diagnose, operate, narrative.