THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF CLLM TOWARD STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ABILITY AN EXPERIMENTAL FOR
EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the discussion on the background of
the study, statement of the problems, objective of the study, scope and
limitation of the study, significance of the study, assumption of the study,
hypothesis of the study, and definition of key terms.
1.1 Background of the Problem
English is an
international language. In facing the free market era its role will be more
seriously felt. The era is known as a mega-competition, in which competitors
have to possess the pre-requirement of being able to use English as communication means. It is the
striving for understanding all aspects of global existence through information
exchange. We cannot keep the science development and global technology
development in balance, without the mastery of English. There are some books,
some recent researchers, some new articles, some written mass medias, and some
other information in website, that are commonly presented in English. Thus, the
English mastery is more helpful to the process of knowledge acquisition,
especially in the field of education to promote its quality.
English has been
adopted as a major from junior high school stage to the university stage. It is
expected that the students obtain the English communication skills. English
communication skills are required to aid the knowledge and technology
development, culture and art development, and the escalation of international
relationship (Depdikbud, 1994). These skills are reading skill, listening
skill, speaking skill, and writing skills that are treated in integrated
teaching learning model. The other grammatical units such as structure,
vocabularies, pronunciation, and spelling serve to support the four skills. All
of them are well kept together for reaching the effectiveness and ???????
