CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
English is one of the
major languages in the world used by more than three hundred and seventy
millions people today. In other words, English is used by more than two thirds of the
world’s population. Nowadays, in modern
society, English becomes more important as a tool of communication. English as
a global language sets the important role in teaching English at school from
elementary school until senior high school and even in university. From these
facts, students are not only expected to speak English fluently but they also
have to be able to fulfill four language skills; speaking, writing, reading,
and listening. These four skills are integrated and related to each other.
Each of
them has
close relation. The difficulty of each skill is relative, and it depends on themselves.
Writing as one of the important skills in teaching English, has always
occupied a place in most English language course. To write well, people must have good capabilities in writing. Moreover,
someone who wants to write must
be
able to organize the idea, to construct the sentences, to use punctuation and spelling well. Besides, they must be able to arrange the writing into cohesive and coherent paragraphs and texts.
Relates to this, Heaton (1975)
also proposed that Writing skill are more complex and difficult to teaching, requiring,
and mastering
not only of grammatical and rhetorical devices
but also conceptual and judgment,
because of the difficulties
of writing, some
efforts have been done to solve
the problem. The main objective
is to make the writing become easier to learn for the students. of
communication, that can help students to express our idea or feeling.
In Indonesia,
English
has been taught from junior
high school until university and it has been studied from elementary school and kindergarten right now. English teaching in Indonesia becomes more important.
In
every school in Indonesia, English as a foreign language is considered
difficult
by
many students. In addition, Huang (2009) also stated
that when students read the assigned textbooks in schools to improve their
writing, they get frustrated writing what they know in English and often begin
to draw away from learning English. It really needs creative efforts from the English teachers to conduct the process of teaching-learning. To be more interesting, then the teachers have to create many ways to explain the subject so that it can
be understood by the students.
Many efforts
have
been
done
in
teaching
writing to the students, one of them is using
pictures as the media. In this research, the researcher used pictures as the media to make learning writing easier because it had
many chronological illustrations
and was interesting
for students. Xing and Jin (1985)
also stated???????
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