EXCELLENT TEACHERS ESSAY WRITING CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE: A CASE STUDY FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

This research was conducted to investigate the practice of teaching writing of Bahasa Melayu teacher in the classroom. The practice of teaching writing in Bahasa Melayu by the language teachers in the classroom will only focuses on teacher s verbal application including variety of ways in teaching writing using various approaches, methods and techniques that are planned, prepared, developed, and concluded with assessments and feedbacks. This study was done as the researcher identified that the level of essay writing at secondary school level still requires strict attention and action. To achieve the objective, a qualitative case study was conducted where a case of multiple locations to investigate a phenomenon in the context of the actual situation. The findings were collected through video recording, observation, interviews and analysis of relevant documents. The selection of the respondents made in accordance with the method of purposive sampling. The findings of this study indicate that the teaching of essay writing sustain the conventional approach due to various problem stated. Thus, the study suggested that in order to achieve the goal of Falsafah Pendidikan Kebangsaan and the aim of language education system, teachers have to be applying various methods of teaching in the classroom. Teacher pedagogical aspect should be fully emphasised to ensure the teaching methods disclose with what has been outlined as a goal of language education. The study also suggests that every teacher should act as researchers to investigate the relationship between students teaching and writing development in their classroom. Effective teaching implementation in a classroom is hopefully can enrich the knowledge of language and the country through the strength in writing and to produce not only quality but also high value young generation.