Argumentative Essay-Afrian Kartika N.

Name  : Afrian Kartika N.

SN       : 1410302083

Class   : 01

Topic : Disagreement with the most difficult skill in English is writing.

Point by point

Writing Is Not Difficult

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            Are you an English learner? Here, I want to give my opinion about skills in learning English. There are four skills in learning English as if writing, listening, speaking, and reading. Based on www.masterportal.eu, listening and reading are known as receptive skills then, speaking and writing are known as productive skills. All language learners will need to develop their skills especially in learning English. When we use the four skills in learning English, sometimes we find some difficulties and problems. Although some people think that writing is the most difficult skill in learning English, I believe that there are other skills that must be considered too.

            Writing is more difficult than speaking in learning English. According to Tarigan (1985:5) writing is a productive skill for indirect communication and the nature of the character is very different with speaking which is a direct communication. For example, when we write text, essay, literary work or so on, we have to pay attention in a lot of rules as if using grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, and so on. It is very difficult for some students who are not understand about the grammar in English. However, we can search unknown vocabularies in dictionary and we can know grammar that is used in writing from English reference books which is impossible when we are speaking English. When we speak English, we have no time to search word by word in dictionary continuously. If we have lack of vocabularies in English, we will be difficult to speak English. Besides, we have to be able pronounce word by word correctly in order to make the others understand what we are talking about.

Writing is more difficult than reading in learning English. According to Harmer (2001:79) writing is a form of comunication to deliver idea or to express feeling through written form. Some students difficult to write something by using appropiate grammar. Sometimes they need more time to think the idea, grammar, vocabularies, and so on. On the other hand, reading needs more aspects than writing. Based on www.speechlanguage-resources.com, it is important to comprehend an author’s message when we are reading a text. In reading, we will find multiple meaning or more of the word that makes we missunderstand if we are not be able to interpret the correct meaning of the text.

            Writing is more difficult than listening in learning English. According to Jonah (2006:29) argues that writing can be used as an indirect means of communication to others to convey an information. Some students difficult to write because in writing should be able to give an idea or ideas to the reader through writing. They can create an idea or ideas by getting inspiration from others. They have to use their own words to avoid plagiarism. On the other hand, listening is an ability to identify and understand what others are talking about. It needs understanding a speaker’s accent, pronunciation, grammar, vocabularies, and gasping the meaning (Howatt and Dakin). It means that we have to listen based on what we have heard before, differs with writing because we can create our own ideas not based on the others have written before. In writing is free to write anything based on our idea, but in listening we have to pay attention first on what we have heard before in order to respond it. It makes listening becomes the most difficult skill in learning English.

                        In conclusion, writing is not the most difficult skill in learning English because there are other skills that must be considered too. There are four skills in learning English as if writing, listening, speaking, and reading. Each skill has their own aspects to develop skill in learning English. From the explanation above, I conclude that listening is the most difficult skill in learning English. It needs more aspects to develop skill in learning English than writing.