IMPROVING STUDENTS' WRITING ABILITY BY USING CTL MODEL AT POSTULAN OFM CONVENTUAL DELITUA – DELI SERDANG, NORTH SUMATERA

Abstract

Writing is one of the important skills in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. Writing begins at the time when the students to learn to communicate his thought and feeling in form of written. writing encourages students to focus on accurate language use and because they think as they write, it may well provoke language development as they resolve problems which the writing puts into their minds. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) is a conception of teaching and learning that helps teachers relate subject matter content to real word situation and motivate students to make connection between knowledge and its application to their lives as family, citizens, and workers and engage in the hard work that learning requires. It was found that the students lack of knowledge in writing skill, however the students feel that this subject is not interested to be learned. The lecturers of Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris UNPRI are interested to conduct the activity “Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat” at Conventual Postulancy on purpose to give the students such knowledge about writing by using Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Model in order to investigate whether Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Model improve the students’ writing ability at Conventual Postulancy by giving them such training and to find out the difficulties and solutions which are found by the lecturers of Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris UNPRI during activity Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat. The activity of Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat was conducted on 21-23 July 2022 at Conventual Postulancy, a Formation House for Catholic Priets. This activity done well as it gives benefit for the students. After getting the training from those lecturers, the students at Postulancy then find out their interest and motivation in writing. The students finally can make their composition better than before as the students know how to make a good writing with the simply ways. Above all, Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) is one of the teaching models that can help the students in writing. By using CTL, the students can use the real context surrounding them as the object for their writing. Based on the result of this activity, it can be concluded that teachers can apply CTL model to teach writing.