The Use of Prewriting Methods to Develop Efl Students’ Competence in Writing

Abstract

The process approach becomes a choice for teachers to apply in the writing class rooms since this approach focuses on the connection of the writing topics to the students' experiences which makes the writing tasks meaningful to students (Yan, 20014). In process approach, students' composition is a product that should go through several stages: prewriting, writing, and post writing. In prewriting, there are several interesting activities that can be done in to improve students' writing skill: asking questions, discussing an interesting topic, taking notes, free writing, clustering, brainstorming, grouping, doing buzy group, outlining, completing notes based on pictures, making a list, making idea map, categorizing,