TEACHING WRITING
NEWS ITEM TEXT THROUGH DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background of Study
People as a
part of social life can not be separated from their community. Language has
an essential role
as a media
for communication. Hornby
defines language as the
system of communication
in speech and
writing that is
used by people of a particular
country. Communication is understanding and expressing information,
ideas, feeling, and
improving knowledge, technology,
and culture.
English as an
international language enables people all around the world to cope each others and create harmonious life. In
Indonesia, English is
very important and
get special attention
to be learnt.
English is taught
not only for
adult but also
in formal school
such as kindergarten,
elementary school, junior
high school, senior
high school and vocational school.
The main aim of teaching
English is to
make it as an easy learn
language and they can use it as well as Indonesian.
Indonesian learners
who want to be master
of English should
learn and comprehend
all aspects. There
are four major
skills such as
listening and speaking, reading
and writing. Writing is one way to communicate in English by expressing
the ideas through
organizing our thought
into good arrangement
of written text.
Olshtain stated that
viewing writing as
an act of
communication suggests an interactive
process which takes
place between the
writer and the reader
via text.
According to
the statement above,
it is said
that written text
is able to present
an act of
communication which can
be easily understood
and involved the writer
and the readers.
Writing skill should
be taught in
order to produce
a high quality written text which can convey the content through informal
literacy such as short
functional text, monologue,
and essay in
the form of
procedure,
