CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Writing is important
to support learning English especially in enriching vocabulary and gaining a
large portion of their education. Therefore, the writer consider that writing
could be taught at junior high schools. There are four skill should be mastered
in learning English; speaking, reading, listening and writing. Writing will
provide a basis for development of other language skills.
Due to the importance
of writing explained above, the teachers had to develop students’ writing
ability since it is the first stage they learned English. By developing
students’ ability to write well, the teachers developed their students’ ability
to become more independent learners, as the students could be able to reproduce
language accurately and refine their understanding of grammar and developed
their own vocabulary. The better students improve their writing ability, the
better they reach the achievement in writing Teachers, therefore, should
explore a new productive strategy in brightening writing classes in order to
encourage students in learning writing skill. They should create interesting
and entertaining materials to motivate the students’ active responds in doing
writing exercise. After the teaching and learning process and all the materials
were given to the students, there was expectation that students made a progress
in their study. To knew whether the students made some progress in their study,
it was useful for teacher to conduct a test or an examination at the end of a
program. So the students were motivated to learn and master the materials which
was taught by the teacher.
There were many
reasons for getting students’ to write, both in and outside class. Writing
gives they more thinking time then they get when they attempt spontaneous
conversation. This allows them more opportunity for language processing, that
was thinking about the language. When thinking about writing, it was helpful to
make a distinction between writing for learning and writing for writing. In the
case of the former, writing is used as a practice tool to help students
practice and work with language they have been studying. When we give example,
ask a class to write five sentences using by using a given structure, or using
five of the new words they learned. Writing activity like this are designed to
give reinforcement to the students.
The kinds of writing
we ask student to do could depend as most other things do, on their age, level
learning styles and interests. We won’t get beginners to try to put together a
complex narrative composition in English.
In helping the
students to write, we need to consider with the gender. A gender was a type of
writing which members of a discourse community would instantly recognize for
what it was. Thus we recognize a small add in newspaper the moment we see it
because, being members of a particular group, or community, we have seen many
such texts before and are familiar with the way they are constructed.
According to
the information, the researches got the
real fact of the situation in learning at SMA N 1 Tompobulu, The researcher
got information from the English teacher and colleagues. Which in fact, class XI kept a big potency but they were
still have a difficulty in expressing their ideas. The students’ ability was
still proportional where, there were student which so predominate the class
other student tend to passive. Beside that,?????????????????????????????????????????????????
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