CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter deals with
background, problem statement, objective, significance, and scope of the
research.
A. Background
English
language has a central role in developing intellectual, social, and emotional
competence to students. It is also an important tool in learning and developing
sciences, technology, and art. Language learning is expected to help students
to recognize themselves, their culture and another culture. Besides, it also
helps students to express their idea, thought, and feeling. In addition, they
are able to participate in society and even to find and also use their
analectic and imaginative ability.
In
the competence based curriculum, the students are expected to be able to
communicate. The ability to communicate is the ability to understand and
produce discourse of which it can be realized in four language skills, namely
listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Moreover those four skills should be
applied in real life. Hence, English subject needs to develop those skills. In
order that, the students are able to communicate and make discourse in English
language in certain literacy level.
Writing
is one of the language skills that play an important role in human
communication. The important of writing is coming to be more and more
recognized. It is through the written mark that links with the outside word are
formed.
There
is no doubt that English writing is important as the other three-language
skill. The ability to write is frequently demanded in many occasions in our
life. For many reasons writing skill is
crucial to most people. Adelstein and Vipal (1980) express that in all subjects
in our life or in all profession, the ability to write or express oneself
clearly is essential basic for success. Writing is crucial meaning of human
communication. It is used to communicate with other people in society and to
express our feeling and opinions. Writing means of both communication and self
expression.
Heaton
in Noni (1984:126) states that many students still encounter difficulties in
writing because it is complex and difficult. In studying English?????????????
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