III. Writing in the Discipline as a Platform in Education for Sustainable Development

                  One attempt to meet the challengewith the need to improve students’ basic language skills in writing

to children’s level of readiness and understanding.

means by which a teacher can provide direction in her student’s dailysearch for new understanding and verifications, particularly by theuse of printed materials. The researcher advocates the need to develop instructional materials such as modules to further help the learnersacquire basic skills. Teachers are encouraged to create modules in such away strategies and activities that are readily available would help eliminate their inferiority in developing the writing skill in them. Theresearcher contest the idea of developing modules as teaching materials for English 121 because there is no main textbooks or prescribed books to be used by the students. In so doing, in this way the students can have readily available materials for the course. This is supported by Vitasa , who stresses that the development and the use of self-made –instructional materials as one strategy can help develop their skills inwriting. The study is purposely made to answer the call for the needof instructional materials which help students develop confidence in writing because a good hand at writing is apparently an edge in a competitive world where ability and proficiency in English language.

Salandanan further stressed that instructional materials offer the best

is to incorporate more writing assignments into classrooms across all disciplines. On the other hand the learning of students is well facilitated when the teacher is on the right pace of teaching his/ her students. The mark of a teacher who has grown in chosen area of specializationis his/her ability to organize and develop curriculum materials suited

Writing in the discipline is based on the premise that each learner mustbe equipped with this very important skill- writing.