The Correlation Between Student’s Negative Reinforcement and
Speaking Ability of the Fourth Grade Students
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents introduction
concerning background of the study, formulation of
research problem, purpose of study, significant of the study, scope and
limitation, formulation of hypothesis, and definition of key terms.
A.
Background of the Study
Language is a system of
communication, and it is the most
useful for people in life. Without language people
cannot interact and communicate with other. Language not only can
be expressed orally but also written. With language we can talk, we can express
our idea, our emotion, our feeling and etc. According to Slobin
(1939:114) stated that “human culture,
social behavior, and thinking could not exist as we know them
in the absence of language.
Although no one would deny the central role of language in human
life, to define the nature of that role has been a
persistent and difficult problem since the
beginnings of philosophy. Although language
pervades mental life, it does not
constitute the whole of psychological state
and processes. There are images and
emotion, intentions and abstractions, memories of
sounds and smells and feelings, and much more”.
In other hands, by language we can communicate not only with a people
but also animal, because almost animals
have some kinds of communication’s system. For instance, some
of bees confess a location and honey to the nest’s
inhabitant by dancing. Besides, some of
the higher animals have??????
