The Effectiveness of Using Mime
Stories towards Students’ Listening Comprehension Ability
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter the researcher
serves seven topics related to the study.
These topics are cover background of the study, research problem, objective of
the research, research hypothesis, significance of the study, and definition of
the key terms.
A. Background of the Study
Language plays the important
role in education. By using language the
process of education runs smoothly. In educational institutions, many people
learn languages mainly English language because
it is very useful language to communicate
with other nations. As we know that English
is a foreign language that is taught
in Indonesia from Kindergarten School to
University as second language. That is why as a country which is
use English as a second language, it’s deeply important to learn as early as
possible.
As second language learning,
understanding a language is not simple,
especially when people have to learn it. That is why the process of acquiring
that English language skill normally takes
a lot of time. Most students as
second language learners, want to be able to understand what people are saying
to them in
English, either face-to-face, on
TV or on radio, and soon. In
fact, it is very difficult to them. The difficulty is caused
by many factors varying from difference of sounds between
the second language learners’ first
language and the second>?????
