CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is one of the international
languages that is used by many people in the world. Therefore, using English is
the easiest way to communicate with the people from other countries about many
aspects in human life such as technology, economy, social aspects, and
politics. In Indonesia, English is a foreign language. Learning foreign
language is an integrated process that the learner should study the four
skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We use it to understand our
world through listening and reading and to communicate our feeling, need, and
desire through speaking and writing. By having more knowledge about language
skill we have much better chance of understanding and being understood and
getting our wish and need from these around us. But, in this research the
writer only focuses about writing.
Writing is
of the basic skills in language. It is very important to understand more,
because writing is different with the other basics. Writing involves some
language components (spelling, grammar, and vocabulary). This is similiar to
what Brain and Claire May (1996: 60), state that writing clear sentences requires you learn the rules of English grammar and mechanics such as the correct use of verbs and pronouns, as well as commas and
other marks of punctuation. There are various ways to organize the sentences in
a piece of writing. One of them is descriptive
paragraph.
Descriptive
paragraph is a paragraph that describe about people, place, and subject. A good descriptive paragraph is a
paragraph that brings the reader to jump in and as if he was present there and
immediately perform, look and see what we have described.
Therefore, many techniques applied by the researcher to help the teachers
in teaching writing, West (1973: 4)
states that teachers very in teaching writing technique and students differ in
the way they learn. Topical approach may
be one of fruitfull technique that can be applied by English teachers in order
to guide and help the students to improve their writing. Topical approach help
the students to write down their argument about particular designed with
interesting topic and also several questions that lead the writer to create a
paragraph, as like Neman (1989: 35) states that topic is the esspence of ideas
which is meant to get across in writing.
Based on my observation, there are some problem found in the field when
giving writing material to the students, especially the descriptive paragraph.
The first problem is that the students’ writing is not comprehensible, because the
content of the composition is not relevant to the topic, the ideas is not
clearly states, the ideas and sentences are not well language use. The second
problem is that there are many errors in vocabulary, grammar, and spelling.
Another problem is the student have low motivation and are not interested in
doing the task since the writing
activities are not interesting. Usually, the students are asked to write
sentences and paragraph without giving some topic so that is difficult for them
to express their ideas on a piece of paper and also the students have
difficulty telling their experience. Writing is difficult for them since they
have to mastery vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. In reference to the
explanation above, the researcher has motivation to do research in improving???????????
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