VOL. 01 NO. 02, DECEMBER 2019 10 The Implementation of Ecocriticism Approach for Healthy Earth and strengthen the English Writing Skill of Literary Appreciation Class Ahmad Iklil Saifulloh Universitas Islam Majapahit clil88id@gmail.com Abstract Due to the research by Greenpeace and Air Visual IQ published on March 5 2019, monitored air quality in hundreds of cities across the globe, Jakarta was ranked first. In accordance with educational character based on Indonesian curriculum about 18 standard characters interpreted, and one of them was environmental care. The problem was the way a teacher to blend those characters into a good educational system in the class. In fact there were no definite process to transfer that character to the student in term of plan, proses, content, and evaluation. It proofed that there were many difficulties by the teacher to conduct evaluation to the student about their character because the teacher only focuses on a cognitive area. So that’s why this research try to transform the area of ecolog y and education to solve those conditions. Due to the condition, the researcher tends to strengthen the educational method on the field of Ecology with Literary Criticism as the media with the title The Implementation of Ecocriticism Approach for Healthy Earth and strengthen the English skill of Literary Appreciation Class at Islamic University of Majapahit Mojokerto. Keywords: Ecocriticsm, English Skill, Literary Appreciation Class INTRODUCTION This research is driven from combining two major knowledges become one significance sources, which is known as Ecocriticism, or the combination of ecology and literary criticism. This being a new field, different thinkers and critics have used the approach and mode variously, and, accordingly, defined the term ecocriticism in different ways. However, their basic concerns being similar, the various approaches generally focus on the relationship between man and the earth. Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyse the environment and arrive at possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. According Garrard (2012), ecocritics may not be qualified to contribute to debates about "problems in ecology" but they must nevertheless transgress disciplinary boundaries and develop their own 'ecological literacy' as far as possible. In his book, he discusses broadly the extent to which one uses, saves, or ignores the environment. According to him this capacity to define, explore and even resolve ecological problems in this wider sense, contributes to the uniqueness of ecocriticism among contemporary literary and cultural theories. Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and potray the relationship between human and the environment in all areas of cultural production. Due to the earth day at 22 nd April 2019, this research which is focuses on ecocriticism area is one of the solutions of our bad pollution in Indonesia. Our country especially Jakarta ranks first as city with the worst air quality in Southeast Asia last year, a recent study has shown. The study by Greenpeace and AirVisual IQ published on March 5 2019, monitored air quality in hundreds of cities across the globe. Jakarta was ranked first, followed by Hanoi, for the worst air quality, the head of Greenpeace Indonesia, Leonard Simanjuntak, said. Due to the condition, the researcher tends to strengthen the educational method on the field of Ecology with Literary Criticism as the media with the title The Implementation of Ecocriticism Approach for Healthy Earth and strengthen the English skill of Writing Class at Universitas Islam Majapahit Mojokerto. Ecocriticsm emerged as a scientific study of the combination of literature and environment in the mid- 1990s. Ecocritics or in Indonesia known as Ekologi Sastra are a term that comes from the Greek Oikos and Critics. "Oikos" means "household," nature, and transcendental spirit in the form of the earth. "Critics" means judge, mediator who wants the house to remain neat in all respects (Howarth, 1988: 163). Because this is a new field of science, several different researchers and critics have used various approaches and methods to define the term Ecocriticsm in various ways. However, because their basic concerns are similar, concerns about natural and environmental conditions are increasingly worrisome with various approaches that focus on the relationship between humans and the earth. Ecocriticsm is a study of literature and