Using Naruto Comic as a Medium in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is one of the human languages in the world
that has important role in interaction and communication. It has become international
language and almost practiced in all part of life. It is important for us to
learn the language.
There are four skills that should be master in
learning English, they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Speaking
skill is one of the main points to master English because it is required to
communicate ideas, opinion and comments with other people in conversational
situation. Speaking skill is one of the difficulties in learning English. There
are many realities indicate that the students sometimes face many problems in
learning English specially in speaking. For instance the students are shy to
speak, less motivation, self-confidence, afraid to make mistake and so on. So
that’s way I will focus on speaking skill in my research.
Motivation is crucial in language teaching. One well-known way to arouse students’
interest can be achieved by bringing something extraordinary and new into the
language class, especially among teenagers and young adults.
Comic can be
used efficiently for this purpose. Comics are usually funny; therefore,
applying them to methodological purposes will have the same effect as using
games in teaching English that brings a cheerful atmosphere into the class.
One of comic is Naruto. Naruto becomes familiar
comic and have a lot of fans in around the world. Those pictures are very
amazing and touching same as the content of the story. In Indonesia, Naruto
series in television
