CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Writing is important way in communication for human life
because it is one of the language skills. By writing skill, someone is asked to
be clearly formed of writing in order to the communication will be easier to be
understood. The importance of writing for human life is the same as the
importance in school environment.
Writing is needed in school environment not only as tool for
transferring the knowledge from teacher to the students and student with
students but also as one of English skills that should be learned by
students, besides others skill like reading, speaking and listening.
As one skill of English, writing can help students to
learn and develop their English by expressing their knowledge, experience and
so on. It can be expressed in form of essay a paragraph, a letter, a short story and etc.
In respect to the writing ability, students should know
their purpose in writing. When we asked about why they writing, students often
say that they write because their teacher asked them and they need to do in the
course. Carino (1990:5) explains that the reasons of a writer to write to
provide information, to display knowledge, to entertain, to construct or
persuade as audience and to ask for something.
Nowadays, English has been studied in all level of school
but not all of students like the method which is given by their teachers. In
fact, learning English which the same teaching technique sometimes make the
students bored. Especially in writing, sometimes students are lack of
vocabularies so that it can be obstruction to do that. However, we need the
technique which can encourage the creativity and a sense of writing. The
students need too the conducive to invite their brain to thinking and we now
many tools that the students can use to increase creative ideas in learning
English, especially in writing activity.
The students sometimes could not write their task with many
reasons. Many aspect make the students could not write such as the
students do not know how to start the writing, they do not have enough ideas to
write, and could not generate their ideas, probably they understood what
should they do but they could not make it. Many students become anxious when
they attempt to write. Some get panicly at the sight of the blank pages and say
they have writing phobia.
To solve problem above, the
researcher would use Writing Marathon Technique to improve the students writing
ability in case of narrative text. It could help the students to express
their ideas or opinions in the written form because sometimes they were blocked
by limiting ideas. The students
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