IMPROVING
THE STUDENTS WRITING SKILL THROUGH WAKIE APPLICATION (Pre Experimental)
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Language is
a means of
interaction between and among
people. Here, language
has function as
tool which connects them
with surrounding. In
the community, people
realize that without language
they cannot interact to each other.
Language can become a bridge that connect one another, even connect one
another that live in different places.
By using a
language someone can
gain information, knowledge, moreover expressing feeling, and
emotions. Nowadays, many people learn the international languages. One of the
international languages is English (Larsen
2003: 2).
There
are
four main skills
in English: those
are reading, listening, writing, and
speaking. Reading and
listening are called
as receptive skill. While writing and speaking are called
productive skills. Writing which belongs
to productive skill
means that writing
is process in which
the writer produces
something that the
content is about
writer’s thoughts, feelings, and or ideas. Language is a primary tool in
communication among human being in a community.
English
is one of a compulsory subject in Indonesia. One of the aims of teaching English is developing the ability to
communicate. The ability involves the four skills: listening, speaking, reading
and writing. The writer is mainly
focused on writing skill, writing is a visual representation of spoken
language. Whatever specific form of writing a writer is engaged in, they will
have to be able to transcribe language according to the conventions of a particular
writing system, and be able to decode visual symbols into their corresponding meanings
(Torrance, Waes
& Galbrait 2007).
Writing
is a very complex activity for its complicated components such as the
development of ideas, syntax, grammar, organization, vocabulary, content,
communication skills, use of punctuation (Erikson
2015: 247). However, writing is not only a matter of putting
ideas in a written form but also organizing words and grammar structure and selecting the
appropriate diction in order
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