Yuanita Damayanti, 2201405022 (2009) MICRO AND MACRO SKILLS FOUND IN THE WRITING EXERCISES OF THE BRIDGE ENGLISH COMPETENCE FOR SMP GRADE VIII PUBLISHED BY YUDHISTIRA. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is based on a study which attempted to analyze micro skills and macro skills of writing that are contained in the writing exercises presented in The Bridge English Competence an English textbook for Junior High School students grade VIII published by Yudhistira. The objective of the study was to describe what micro skills and macro skills are contained in the writing exercises. The reason why I chose this topic was because teachers should give adequate writing exercises for students since the writing competence could only be achieved by practicing a lot. Thus, they need good exercises on the textbook they used. In conducting the research, I collect the documents by identifying the writing exercises on the written cycle given in the textbook. After the data was collected, I prepare some tables to classify them into the micro and macro skills of writing which is suggested by Douglas Brown that they might have. At last, the interpretation of the data was compiled to show whether the writing exercises in the textbook have already covered the micro and macro skills of writing. The result of the study revealed that the writing exercises presented in The Bridge English Competence for Junior High School students grade VIII published by Yudhistira have already covered the micro and macro skills of writing. However, they just covered five out of six from the micro and macro skills. There is one micro skill and one macro skill that are not covered in the writing exercises. From the 143 total writing tasks are there in the textbook, there are 30 tasks that do not include any of the micro skills or macro skills. Specifically, there are 65 out of 143 tasks that do not includes any of the micro skills, and 79 tasks that do not includes any of the macro skills. The conclusions of the study are, first, there are five out of six of the micro and macro skills of writing that already included in the writing exercises, There are five out of six of the micro and macro skills of writing that have already included in the writing exercises. The micro skill that is not included is produce graphemes and orthographic patterns of English. Meanwhile, the macro skill that is not included is distinguished between literal and implied meanings of writing. Secondly, it can be seen that The Bridge English Competence for Junior High School Students Grade VIII published by Yudhistira is less effective to be used in the teaching learning process in order to achieve writing competence. Finally, I suggest that those findings be considered in selecting textbook that will be used in the teaching learning process. A textbook should provide adequate and good writing exercises that contain the micro and macro skills of writing.

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