CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS

                                                          CHAPTER I
                                                      INTRODUCTION

      The chapter consists of background of the study, reason for choosing the topic, limitation of the study, statement of the study, objective of the study, significances of the study and outline of the study.
1.1 Background of the Study
         In Indonesia, English is the first foreign language. Consequently, English is not used as a means of  daily communication among people but is only utilized in very limited interaction, and is  only learned as a school
subject. We know that English plays important   in the globalization era, so that now English is learned by students from the first grade of elementary school to the third grade of senior high school. Even, English is also taught for children in playgroup.
        For beginner, the four basic skills of English namely; listening, speaking, reading and writing, can not be separated. The skills should be developed thoroughly, even though the reinforcement is in writing skill. It is
predicated on the observation and experience of the writer that most beginners of English, may speak the language well, but are not able to write based on the sentence pattern or word order well without systematic training. This training nearly always needs to begin at the sentence level.??????