CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Learning
English is very important, because English has become an international
language, which is used by most
communities in the world. Many countries use English as their second language.
In spite of the difficulties in studying English, it is worthwhile to study the
language because it plays a very important role in almost all fields of life such as: communication, commerce, economy,
politics, education, science, technology and so on. Finocchiaro stated that “Language is a system
of arbitrary, vocal symbol, which permits all people in given culture or other
people who have learned the system of that culture, to communicate or to
interact”. (Finocchiaro, 1974:3).
In
Indonesia, English is the first foreign language. English has a major position
in Indonesian educational system. It is one of the compulsory subjects to be
studied in junior and senior high school in today’s Indonesian curriculum. A large
number of public and private universities and colleges realizing the demand of
producing graduates mastering English. That’s why English is included as one of
the subject to be taken in early semester of the study. More over, now there is
a preference to teach English at Elementary Schools even in kindergartens.
According
to 2004 Curriculum of Elementary School, elementary school may add a lesson
that is called local content or “muatan lokal”. There are many kinds of local
content taught in different elementary
school such as gardening,??????????????????????????
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