Environmental awareness must be urgently strengthened to all people in the world from children to adults. Integrating environment based education in teaching and learning process can become a solution to foster it. This article reports the implementation of environmental problem based in teaching writing skill on the first-year students of English Language Education of a private university in Tangerang. The total number of the students is 25, and the research was done by using qualitative method namely explanatory case study. The data were collected through questionnaire, interview, and observation. Then it was analyzed through three steps namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. It answers the questions as follow: (1) How is the implementation of environmental PBL in teaching writing?; (2) How is the writing skill of the first year students of English Language Education after being taught by using environmental problem-based learning?; and (3) How is the environmental awareness of the first year students of English Language Education? Therefore, the result of the research reveals three major findings: (1) description of the implementation of environmental problem based learning in teaching writing; (2) the description of students’ writing skill after being taught by using environmental problem-based learning; and (3) the description of students’ environmental awareness. Based on the research findings, it can be summarized that the implementation of environmental problem based learning to the first-year students of undergraduate school can be used as an alternative method in the teaching writing skill in order to simultaneously develop students’ writing skill and foster their environmental awareness.
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