Reading Assignment

Name : Alber F. Pagalla

Reg. Numb : 085 204 097
Class : Education C

Title : Improving the Writing Ability of the Students of SMA Frater

Makassar through Remedial Teaching
Author : Semuel Petrus (2009)
Topic : Remedial Teaching is one of the solutions of writing problem.
Content :
English as a foreign language can be studied from four main basic language skills
namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing is one of the language skills
which have great role in learning particularly English. Getting appropriate meaning from
a text, it depends on the arrangement or composition of the writing. The true of the
structure of writing is the most important part that must be considered to arrange the text.
It is assumed that writing is the most difficult part of English to be studied by students.
Teacher as an educator are expected to be able to choose a new teaching strategy as a
solution for this problem. One of the ways that expected to improve the ability of the
students to write is giving remedial teaching for students. Remedial teaching is given
based on the weaknesses of the students are found in the previous text (diagnostic test).
The writer interested to do research related to the use remedial teaching in order to
improve the students ability in writing. The writer is interested to be conducting a
research under title “Improving the Writing Ability of the Students of SMA Frater
Makassar through Remedial Teaching”.