CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
English
is one of the languages used as a means of sharing ideas on setting information
from other people in the world. We can not deny that the mastery of English is
quite necessary for Indonesian people nowadays. Therefore, the government of
Indonesia has put English as an essential subject to be learned from junior
high school up to university level. Even, nowadays, it is being taught at
elementary school.
One
of the English language aspects which many students consider very difficult to
study is writing. Generally writing is quite unpopular. It has been in long
practice of teaching English as a foreign language in Indonesia that writing is
rather neglected for various reasons. It needs greeter efforts on the part of
teacher and therefore it is quite demanding, causing a greeter burden than
other language aspects to teach. The teaching of writing has been associated
with tedious correction and markings of individual students’ work.
Writing
is one of the English language skills has an important role not only in formal
situation but also informal one, sometimes people can not verbalize their
opinion, ideas or feelings but they can express them through writing. Some
elements or components should get attention in writing are caused by many
factors. One of them is complicated components of writing, namely: content,
grammar, style, form, and mechanics. These components are related to another in
order to produce good result writing.
Teachers
of English face many problems dealing with language skills. Since writing as a
productive skill, it is being a means of written communications. Teacher always
fight and strive for their students to solve their problem in writing skill by
expressing their ideas through writing. In writing process, learners always
deal with the process of putting words into sentences and the putting sentences
into paragraph until they can create a piece of writing.
Teaching
students to write well is of great importance in today’s classroom. That’s why
the teacher has to employ a good technique or method to provide inspiration for
the students that will motivate them to express themselves creatively through
writing. The teacher should give the students many activities to do in order to
make the students creative. In this case, teacher should employ good technique
and have good preparation in teaching them. A delightful way to encourage the
students to write paragraph is to use “visual - picture sequences” as an aid and
medium in teaching writing.
For
the students to be successful writers, writing subject must occur at every
grade level, not merely at the tested grades. Each
grade level students acquire the writing skills they will need for success in
the next grade. Basic writing concepts are strengthened as student’s progress
through elementary school, middle school, and high school. Making writing an
important part of other content areas, such as science and social studies, will
strengthen this alignment. In addition, students learn to write effectively by
having many opportunities to practice writing. Without practice, students
cannot sharpen the skills they need in order to be able to write competently
and confidently.
Arising
from the background above, the researcher will conduct a research and employ
visual – picture sequences to improve writing ability of the class XI exact
program students of SMA Muhammadiyah 7 Makassar. The subject of this research
is the students who are still learning English in the middle level of senior
high school. According to the English teacher of class XI exact program that,
actually, this class has an active students concerning English subject but they
never be trained to write with a specific method, technique, and particular
media, even they resist writing, not because they really hate the act itself,
but because they lack of strategies and confidence to meet the writing tasks we
assign them. With the result their potency buried and causing their achievement
poorly.
Further,
beside the information from the English teacher, the researcher also gets the
data from the English teacher concerned and observation result of P2K research
approximately 2 months at the last semester of class X SMA Muhammadiyah 7
Makassar about the students’ achievement in English Subject especially in
writing which in fact is still low and poorly. From the data score of the
students’ value indicates a low score; most of them still get the score under
65 while the Standard English in curriculum is 65. Therefore, the teacher wants
to solve this problem until the students gain an expected score and achieve the
score till 70 as a???
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