Teaching Academic Writing Based on Need Analysisfor Indonesian Efl Learners at University (original) (raw)

there are four skills in English teaching and learning, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Listening and reading are categorized as receptive skills, while speaking and writing are as productive skills. Writing skill is one of productive skills that needs some competences, such as linguistics competence, getting the idea competence, and organizing the idea competence. This article will discuss about Teaching Academic Writing based on Need Analysis for Indonesian EFL Learners at University. It is kind of research article that will use Qualitative Research Methodology. The subject of this research will be the university students who join in academic writing. The reseacher will try to do need analysis for the students by using questionnaire. Based on the questionnaire, the researcher will create syllabus for academic writing, then he will use it in teaching and learning process for Indonesian EFL learners at univesity. At last, he will assess the result of students' writing by using scoring rubric based on the organization of essay. This research article will be useful for academic writing lecturers. This kind of article can be used as a model for lecturer in teaching academic writing at University, because this article will provide some materials which are needed by the students based on the need analysis.