CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
of the Study
In
learning English, there are four skills we must study. They are listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. The four skills mentioned are diveded into
receptive and productive skills. Speaking and writing are productive skills,
while listening and reading are receptive skills. Beside the four language
skills above, reading is of great importance to student show mother tongue is
not English, because they almost do not have oppurtunity to hear or to speak that
language. Writing is a difficult thing for students if they are do not have
basic knowledge, especially in writing the text.
The
study of foreign language is parallel to children learning their first
language. The study the language through four steps. The first is mastering
listening skill. Children listen to every sound in the environment. The second
is mastering speaking skill. In this step, they try to practice what they
listen. The third is mastering reading skill. Usually they start learning this
language skill when the study in the kindergarten and elementary school. The
fourth is mastering writing skill. Those are the four language skill which
should be started by people when they study language.
Writing
is one of the important skills in teaching English. It has occupied a place in
most English language course. People need to learn writing in English, for
occupational or academic purposes. To write well, we must have good
capabilities in writing process and aspects of writing. The writer must be able
to organize the idea, to construct the sentence, to use punctuation and
spelling well.
Beside, they must be
able to arrange their writing into cohesive and coherent paragraphs and texts.
When the teachers teach English in the school, they will find many students who
have good writing skills ability, many students who have middle ability and may
be they will find many students who have low ability in writing skill. These
phenomena depend on each student, and they are also influenced by student’s
learning style.
Teaching methods are
needed in teaching-learning process, especially in teaching writing. Method is
treated at the level design in which the role of teachers, learners and
instructional materials are specified. Considering the explanation above, English
teachers must have responsibility as they are demanded to have teaching
strategy in order to solve the problem faced by student in learning English.
Teachers must be able to arrange their assignments effectively. They are
demanded to motivate the student in order to learn English well.
Writing
is language activity that needs much cognitive concentration. When writing, a
writer is challenged to use just linguistics code without helping of other
codes, take for instance, gestures. A writer has to arrange some ideas and
transform them into his thinking carefully in writing codes on papers. In fact,
writing is different from writing Indonesian. English as stated above is a
foreign language for Indonesian student. English is a new language that they
often have trouble when they learn
it. One of the reasons is the characteristics of English itself. For example,
tenses, regular and irregular verb are not found in Indonesia. On contrary,
Indonesia is a language which the students have got earlier basically, we
believe that student of SMP have enough knowledge of it and have known to use
it well and correctly. So it is possible that Indonesian, though it is a school
language for most of them, can regard as the student’s mother tongue. They use
Indonesian more frequently with them friends and teachers. Moreover, Indonesian
is very close to them, to their speaking or writing habits. This is one thing
that invites problems when the student writes the sentences composition in
English.
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