PENERAPAN PROSES KOGNITIF DAN TERAPI COGNITIVE BLOCKING DALAM PENINGKATAN KUALITAS PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS

Students in general have difficulty in expressing their ideas in writing.
This indicates that the teaching of writing is not yet successful. The lack of success
is due to, among others, the dominance of theoretical explanation and discussion
of how to develop good paragraphs and how to use punctuation correctly in classes
of writing. Such teaching behavior may be urged by an underlying belief that
knowledge of writing and mastery of the language used are the main factors
determining writing ability. But current research results indicate that writing is a
cognitive process greatly determined by the thinking or reasoning ability. So the
process of writing will be hindered when the process of reasoning experiences a
dead end or cognitive blocking. On the other hand, a reasoning process which runs
well produces ideas which then demand expression. The pressure for expression
urges the owner of the ideas to study good language use and how to express ideas in
an organized way. Therefore, the teaching of writing had better focus on improving
thinking quality and minimizing cognitive blocking.
Keywords: the teaching of writing, cognitive blocking