CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Language is the most
important thing for people as a means of communication. It is basically a means
of both oral and written communication. People use language to express their
ideas and wishes to others’ people such as when they need others help so that
close relation among members of the group can be carried. It is important to
learn English because it is an international language which is used in many
countries over the world and widely used in many sectors such as information,
trade, education, etc.
In Indonesia, English
has an important role especially in education. Therefore, English is taught as
thefirst foreign language in all levels of schools and language courses. In
school, English has been taught as a local content. Since The Basic Course
Outlines of the 2004 Curriculum (2004: 7) in Nurhawaeni states that the
objective of learning English at junior high school as a local content is to
develop students' communication ability in the context of school. It means that
the students are expected to be able to make simple transactional and
interpersonal conversation which is potentially needed to communicate in the
context of school. Here, the teacher plays important role since he has to be
able to set students interest and motivation in learning English in order to
develop students’ ability to communicate using all the resources they have
already acquired to interact with others about their needs and interest.
In this study, the
writer will focus on teaching writing in Junior high school considering that in
learning language writing is the skill that students acquire in first to write
something. Writing is important to support learning English especially in enriching
vocabulary and gaining a large portion of their education. Therefore the writer
considers that writing can 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 writings explained above, the
teachers have to develop students’ writing ability since it is
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