CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Students as beginners in learning English usually make many mistakes in
sentences. Sometimes they find difficulties in finding idea, they do not know
how to arrange the vocabulary that they have into good sentences. In this case,
the teacher should find out solution by creating efficient and effective
techniques of teaching writing that can make the writing class more
interesting, exciting, and enjoyable. It can be done by choosing the material
appropriate with the students and take a techniques in increasing the writing
ability if the students. One of them is “sentences Reconstruction Technique”.
There are various ways or techniques that have been used
but still remains mistakes, Risna Akib (2006) find that the students’ ability
to write sentence in English was very poor. It was seen thought the means score
that was 46,1. The law ability the students was concluded based on five
criteria of writing, they are: content, organization, vocabulary, language use,
and mechanic. It means that the students need something difference which can
improve their motivation in English learning process. The researcher will use
sentence reconstruction technique in her research because it can help the
students to change their knowledge in write good sentences.
One reason for learning to write is to transmit ideas to
people, especially to those who are a distance in time and space. Another
reason is the writing process helps you sort out and organize random thoughts,
clarify what you really think and develop ideas. That is why people want to
write because writing can be a media to communicate with others in one
community or wider world. If someone can write well, he or she can communicate
with a person who is a thousand of miles away from him; understand what he
means and what he feels.
Relating to the above statement, the writing skill
should be given much attention in teaching language and teach it previously to
the students. In order to, they are not
let behind and can take a role in the modern society. However, the writing
skill is a complex and sometimes difficult to teach; it requires mastery of not
only grammatical and rhetorical devices but also of the conceptual and judgment
element. There are many various skills necessary for good writing composition.
It has five general components of main ideas. They are language use, mechanical
skills, statement of content, stylistic skill, and judgment skill (Heaton,
1975).
Furthermore, the ability of mastering the sentence
structure enables the students to combine, expand, and shorten the sentence and
further enables them to produce perfect English with some various ways.
Mastering the sentence structure will be understandable for the listeners and
readers. If the students have good skills in sentence construction, they will
be able to make and arrange the sentence into a paragraph, which is the
beginning of how to be a good writer. This is relevant with what Widdowson
stated in Muddin (1992:74) that language learning consists of efforts to get
competence in constructing good sentences and to get knowledge about sentences
or how to use suitable sentences in certain contexts.
In practicing English writing a sentence reconstruction
technique can make the students to be active in writing. It is one of the ways
to increase the students’ ability in writing. The advantage of using sentence
reconstruction technique in writing is the students easy to get idea and to
start writing if they have seen jumbled words that can be used as a basis of
their own work in making sentences, it make the students think about correct
order of the sentence.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher’s
conclusions are. The first, sentence reconstruction technique give much
opportunities to express students’ ideas in writing. Second, sentence
reconstruction technique is useful to encourage students in increasing their
writing ability, especially in writing appropriate sentence. Three when using
sentence reconstruction technique can motivate students to reconstruct jumbled
words by identifying part of sentence in order to make them easy to write
correct sentence.
B.
Problem Statement
Sentence reconstruction technique is a process of
reconstructing, rebuilding, or recognizing something. Through sentence
reconstruction technique, the students are practiced to make good sentence. In
order to be able to examine such problem, the researcher needs to ask the
following research questions:
- How sentence reconstruction technique can increase the students’ writing ability at the second year students of MAN 349 Binamu Kab. Jeneponto?
- How is the effectiveness of sentence reconstruction technique to increase the students’ ability?
C.
Objective of the
Research
By the title “Increasing Students’ Writing Ability by
Using Sentence Reconstruction Technique at the Second Year of MAN 349 Binamu
Kab. Jeneponto” the study aims to find out specific objective, namely:
1.
To find out how can sentence
reconstruction technique be used to increase the students’ writing ability at
the second year students of MAN 349 Binamu Kab. Jeneponto
2.
To find out how is the
effectiveness of sentence reconstruction technique to increase the students
ability
D.
Significance of the
Research
The finding of this research is expected to give
information to the English teacher in increasing the writing ability if student
by using sentences reconstruction technique. In others words, this research is
expected to give contribution to teaching and learning methods, particularly in
teaching writing skill, and more particularly about written sentences to the
second year students of MAN 349 Binamu Kab. Jeneponto. Specifically, there will
two significances of this research, they are:
1.
Theoretical significance
Some statements have proved that sentence reconstruction
technique is good to be applied in the classroom to increase the students’
ability and make them active in the classroom. Reconstruction is a classroom
tesching technique designed to help students improve writing skills. Therefore,
the researcher will try it to increase the students’ motivation in English
writing.
2.
Practical significance
- Significance for the students
The researcher expects that all of
the students have high motivation and can write well through sentence
reconstruction technique. They are expected to increase their ability of their
English writing with easy method and can be applied in the classroom.
- Significance for the teachers
By this research, the researcher
hopes that the sentence reconstruction technique can help teacher to increase
their student’s achievement. It is also expected to give good contributions for
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