CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the Study
The increasing need caused by developing
era demanded the global society to enhance their human resources quality in
order to compete to the other countries. In responding this situation, the role
of communication had become a part that could not be separated from this
condition. As English had become very powerful language in the world, it became
one of international languages, most global community used English as a media
of communication with another. Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad & Mohammad
Aliakbari (2007) said that English as an International Language referred to the
use of English by people of different nations in order to communicate with one
another.
As the important of English in
communication, it was not something difficult to see that the language was
frequently used either to formal or informal places such as foreign companies,
embassy office, tourism sector and many other places. Different from Singapore,
Bangkok, Malaysia and India, they put English as their second
language as their language communication while Indonesia put English as its
foreign language. It was used as an instrument of utilizing modern sciences and
technology for national development and it was also used as a mean of
communication when Indonesian wanted to communicate to people from overseas. No
doubt that only few Indonesians mastered of it, most of them tended to ignore
it, they used to think that foreign language was not something
useful for their daily life and learned of it would only waste of time.
However, nowadays, the assumption was
gradually scraped off by the developing era that demanded the society to
be more competitive and to be able to enhance their human resources quality.
Therefore, the role of English was needed to face the era of globalization,
where it would be many new things happened in our nation. Since English
recently was treated as foreign and important language for Indonesian, it had a
major portion in Indonesian educational system and became a compulsory subject
to study either in junior or senior high schools in today’s Indonesian
educational system.
Ricardo Schutz (2007) said that English
in its role as a global language that it had become one of the most
important academic and professional tools. The English language was recognized
as undoubtedly the most important language for the increasingly mobile
international community to learn. This was a fact that seemed to be
irreversible. English had become the official language of the business and
scientific worlds. The massive trend of learning English was not without a
reason. The development of the country’s economy, science and technology
that tended to be influenced by many English speaking countries had put people
who understood English in more advantageous position, especially in job
finding. Many Indonesian people started to believe that English would help them
so much in finding a job than those who did not.
As the most important foreign language in
Indonesia, English became one of the compulsory subjects taught in junior high
school, senior high school and some????????????
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