Academic Writing: Competence and Difficulties of Senior High School Students at Cotabato City National High School-Main Campus
Academic Writing: Competence and Difficulties of Senior High School Students at Cotabato City National High School-Main Campus
Academic Writing: Competence and Difficulties of Senior High School Students at Cotabato City National High School-Main Campus
Academic Writing: Competence and Difficulties of Senior High School Students at Cotabato
City National High School-Main Campus
Mudaresa M. Apit, Uzair M. Kudto, Amiroden T. Sultan, Jamillah A. Yusoph
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The academic writing is one way to enhance Motivating the interest of the students in topics
student efficiency in English Language focused on critical reading, and raise attentiveness by providing reasons for knowledge. Most
writing, analyzation, and research skills placed on developing students are focused about the subjects in terms of grammar,
communication skills in preparation to vocabulary and reading efficiency. Now the question is, how to get
better in these parts?Is it the biggest deal for students who are below
average level or state in reading, comprehension a21nd proficiency
on how to enhance them with this problem. Once those needs are
understood, it is a lot easier to classify potential solutions motivating
the learners to learn comprehensions. Gammill (2006)
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1.2 Review of Literature make a good quality of sentence. this means that we should engage
the student to read using the “Iqra techniques” since that it’s the first
word in Holy Quran that comes upon the Prophet Mohammad(SAW)
Rosmaniand AbdulWahab(2011) the word “Iqra” means read or
The study of writing competence efficient and student’s recite[7] to understand the relationship between reading
performance in Academic Writing of Senior High School student Comprehension and writing Competence, however some student’s
used to determine the levels of the writing competence and they know how to write but they can’t read base on observation of the
difficulties of the student in construction of word and organizing of scholar.
idea. Writing skills enhance the students to communicate using their
imagination and exchanges of ideas in social lives. It is commonly A number of studies also highlight the importance of
used in language competence and comprehensive quality. Academic linguistic knowledge and processing ability skills for proficient
writing is a big problem in senior high school students from suffers reading. Pang (2008) refers those students’ have appropriate
from limited knowledge and weak formation of idea. Therefore, some knowledge of vocabulary and critical thinking in the field of literal,
student lost their confident in writing because of lack of organization Evaluate, Essential, Critique, inferential are helpful in terms of
of sentence, accurate use of punctuation marks and capitalization of forming a sentence. Pretorius(2002) investigated the relationship
words. Process Writing. Donald M. Murray(1972) published a brief between reading skills and academic performance of the student
manifested titled “ Teach Writing as a Process Not Product”, which undergraduate level. The findings of study indicated that
awaked from many writers that writing can be learn by a process. underperforming students had serious reading problems. In that case
However Maxine Hairston(1982) argued that teaching of writing had most of the students have difficulties in reading, similarly in the
undergone a “ paradigm shift” in moving from a focus on written semantic role of word that result difficulty to the students to
product to writing processes. Mahon(1992) pointed out that process understand the text they read. The main focus of this study is to
writing approach involves teaching pupils strategies to help them develop the student’s interest in the field of writing skills.
express themselves in writing. Students developed their interest by
the help of teacher this means the in writing skills it’s very important According to Heaton(1988:135) that writing skills are
to guide the student to improve the writing ability, speaking, reading, complex and sometimes difficult to teach, requiring mastery not only
to improve their ability in terms of communicating. of grammatical and rhetorical devices but also of conceptual and
judgmental elements. Also Ghazi ( 2002:1) says that writing is a
According to Belloni and Jongsma’s(1978) study stated that complex process that allows writers to explore thoughts and ideas,
“Student comprehend better when they are interest in what they are and make them visible and concrete. Writing encourages the student
preferred”. However; Jarvis (2000) emphasizes that many students do in thinking and learning to communicate effectively and makes their
not enjoy writing because they feel that if they cannot do it correctly thought credible. In Academic writing needs some skills such as ;(1)
at the first time then they will never get it. To understand how the using vocabularies in writing;(2) generating the ideas;(3)using tenses
student get their attention in and writing skills it’s important to or grammar for writing. Masjhari(2010).after doing this tree skills,
provide a learning material to enhance the students to read and the statement should examined , scheme, structure of sentence to
analyze the text either non-fiction or fiction and look the relationship make perfect writing, it also required the student have a stuck
of the student in what they read in the text. This information was use knowledge to easily create a good quality of writing.
to understand in order to see what are the student’s preferred to read
and how affected their abilities in writing skills. Gebhard(1996)
pointed out that the useful things in writing are word choice, use of
appropriate grammar, syntax, mechanics and organization of ideas 1.3 Theoretical and Conceptual Framework
into coherent and cohesive form. In Senior high student specially
Humanities and Social Science track in reading and writing works as Independent Variable Dependent Variable
an essential processes in learning new information, in translating
massage, in making sense of new ideas and for exchange those idea
with others.
2.1 Design
2.2 Respondents
1. What is the level of the student performance in academic The respondents of this study were the students from
writing in terms of: Humanities and Social Science(HUMSS) of Cotabato City National
High School Main- Campus, Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato city during
1.1 Grades the school year of 2019-2020.To know the level of their Academic
1.2 Academic Performances Performance: Competence and Difficulties of Senior high school
1.3 Writing Skills Students.
2.3 Measurement
2. What the level of the student in academic writing in terms of;
The researcher utilize questionnaire to determine the
academic competence and difficulties of the students in field of
2.1 Grammar academic writing. It is list of survey questionnaire to gather the
2.2 Vocabulary information that being asked to the respondents. The researcher
2.3 test score instrument is used to collect price typical data over a large number of
populations.
3. What are the difficulties and competences of the students in
senior high school in field of writing?
1.6 Significance of the study The researchers used to start the study on consulting to our
research adviser to allow us to conduct the study about “Academic
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Scale Description
4 Strongly Agree
3 Agree
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree