Teaching Essay Writing to the ELT Students’

Abstract

Essay writing ELT students’ is considered as one of the most important academic courses in a
supposed program help develop students’ skill. The research subjects were 11 students of class
2019 A STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo English Education study program. The instrument used was a
questionnaire and scoring rubric. The technique for data analysis is qualitative. In analyzing
essay writing data with a questionnaire and scoring rubric are as follows. Taking the data
questionnaire was conducted using 15 questionnaires in a student's response to learning essay
writing with Google Form with answers to yes and no. respondents who answered yes as much
84,23% and than respondents who answered no as much 21,22%. Then got data based on scoring
rubric was carried out by assessing and correcting the essay writing results of 11 students of class
2019 A. The result were assessed using a scoring rubric consisted of 5 aspects, namely format,
mechanics, content, organization, grammar and sentence structure. From the description above,
the average value was 87.3. This study presents a research report on teaching essay writing to the
ELT students. The aim is to find out students ability in essay writing and students responses in
essay writing classroom.