Abstract
This study aims to investigate students’ essay writing skill improved by implementing appropriate teaching materials development and suitable approach model of instruction. Participants were students who attend essay writing subject matter. The research and development method implemented consist of survey method for identifying lecturer’s needs, content analysis method for finding out appropriate essay writing teaching materials development, expert review method for knowing appropriate level of essay writing teaching materials development, and experiment method for testing the effectivity of implementing essay writing teaching materials development and genre based-process approach model of instruction. The study results showed that a) the existing essay writing teaching materials development are not compatible with students’ and lecturer’s needs, especially in terms of input, text types, and the kinds of topics and activities; b) there is a need for developing a new set of essay writing teaching materials development based on genre based-process approach model of instruction; c) the new essay writing teaching materials development are considered adequate enough by the experts but they still needs some revisions; d) the new essay writing teaching materials development are effective enough in improving students’ essay writing skill; e) the final essay writing teaching materials development product must be students book, workbook, and lecturer manual. This new essay writing teaching materials development can be well implemented by using genre based-process approach model of instruction.
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