IMPROVING WRITING
RECOUNT TEXT BY USING PHOTOGRAPHS:
A CASE STUDY
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
English is an
international language. It is used all over the world.For that reason, it is
important for people to master English orally and in writing, in order to be
able to communicate and socialize with the world community. English is the
first foreign language taught at every school in Indonesia.
The Indonesian
government chooses English as the first foreign language to be taught in
schools and as a major subject for the students from elementary school to
university students, they realize how important English in their life, so the
intend to master it, in such as way that they can use that language to
communicate with other people in the world. Students must master four language
skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Based on the concept and
function, English has the purpose to develop those four skills and also the
language components: vocabulary, structure and pronunciation (in speech) or
spelling (in writing) which supports students mastering well. In mastering
English, students find problems dealing with language skills and language components
as mentioned above.
Most students in Indonesia consider English as
a difficult subject which makes them frustrated. Many of them failed to
graduate from SMP / SMA only because of their mark of English of national final
examination doesn’t fulfill the requirement in at the passing grade score. That
is why the Indonesian government makes efforts to find the solution of those
problems. For example they change the curriculum and introducing new approaches
of teaching to English teacher. They also have to consider some factors such as
quality of the teacher, student interest, motivation, teaching techniques that
play important roles to achieve the objective at school learning.
The writer is
focusing her research on writing because writing is one of the four language
skills that play a very important role in second language learning. Writing
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