THE USE OF DIARY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN
WRITING RECOUNT TEXT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of The Study
Nowadays in
Indonesia, all of the students at schools
from primary school to university learn English
as a foreign language. The purpose of
learning English is that students can communicate
in English both oral form and written
one. Especially in senior high school level,
the students learn all English language
skills like speaking and writing.
Writing is one of the four language skills. As stated by
Finocchiaro and Brumfit (1983:149), “Writing should reinforce and help extends
the listening, speaking, and reading skills”. Writing as one of the four
language skills is part of syllabus in English teaching. It can be seen
from the curriculum 2004, standard competency
of senior high school (Depdiknas:2003) starting the aim of
English teaching is “Siswa mampu mengembangkan kemampuan dalam
bahasa Inggris dalam bentuk lisan dan
tulisan. Kemampuan berkomunikasi meliputi mendengarkan
(Listening), berbicara (Speaking), membaca (Reading), dan
menulis (Writing).”
From the
statement above, the researcher concludes that
writing can support the others language skills.
It means that writing is a complex
domain to learn and to teach because it requires
many skills. Before doing and making a good writing, the students need to???
