CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
In learning English, there are four skills we must study. They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The four skills mentioned are diveded into receptive and productive skills. Speaking and writing are productive skills, while listening and reading are receptive skills. Beside the four language skills above, Writing should be taught by the teacher to the students optimally because with this skill students can produce a written information or text such as monologue and essay in the forms of procedure, descriptive, recount, narrative, report, news item, exposition, explanation, discussion, and review. In addition, those four skills have to be supported by language components such as grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Writing is usually thought to be the most difficult skill to acquire and should only be taught after students have learned the other skill. But here, students are expected to be able to write well. Because by writing the can students what happen in her mind, so that the readers will know about it. The are many ways to encourage student to learn how to work well. It is the teacher’s task to make the class interesting in order to make the, the students will enjoy the class, so as a result the goal of the teaching learning process will be achieved more optimally. The use of information communication and technology (ICT), such as blog is one of media that teachers can use to improve the students’ writing skill
Generally the writer found
the student interest in writing is less
, but they are very happy to surf in the internet . Therefore, through this
media, we are trying to direct their interest in technology to the positive
way by writing as an useful activities. So
their interest will increase in
writing . there are many types of writing such as narrative text, recount text,
decriptive text, exposition text, and letter writing. Moreover, descriptive text is very
interesting to do for the student because this type of text is pleasant and
easy to be learn.
According to Y
Margono, said that in addition to writing ,computers can also be used as a
medium of entertaiment , such as games,music,and movies,it can also be used to
develop their telent like processing ,music painting and hone the skills of the
foreign language, as well as help foster motivation to learn. The negative
impact of computer of which students tend to isolate himself from
society,corrupting morals,creating pride themselves,affect the psychological
abuse etc.
Blog is a website that allows an author to publish instanly on the internet from any internet
connection. Blog can be used by teacher as a formative assessment tool.
Blogging is an authentically collaborative medium of public writing. It allows because by using the
blog medium students
can be expected to motivate in writing students to develop and maintain control of their
discourse, and teachers to develop assignments and activities that promote a
democratic classroom that encourages student writers to collaborate, critique,
and define knowledge.
By
using blog as a medium for teaching writing, students will be more interested,
more active, and will feel something new and different from what they usually
get in the usual class. They will feel that they are not only an object of
teaching learning process but also a subject of it.
Based on the statement above, the researcher is interested in
carrying out a study on “The Use of Blog
in Teaching Descriptive to Improve Student’s
Writing Ability of The Eleventh Grade at
SMKN ”.
B. Scope of
the Research
This
study is focus on the use of blog media in Descriptive texts to improve student's
writing ability at the grade students of
SMK.
C. Problem
Statement
Based on the background, the researcher formulates the question as follows: does the use of blog
media in teaching descriptive text can improve students’ ability in writing
at the first grade students of SMKN?
D. Objective
of the Research
The objective of the research is to find out:
Whether or not the use blog media in teaching descriptive text can improve
students’ ability in writing at the second grade students of SMK?
E. Significance
of the Research
Generally, the significance of the study can be seen from three
aspects, as follow:
1.
For English
teacher
The result
of the research hopefully can be useful to the teacher as information to find
out how to improve the students’ writing skill and increase the quality of
teaching
2.
For student
The result
is hopefully useful for the students to practice their writing through blog media to improve their writing skills.
3.
For other
researcher
The result
of this study is hopefully able to give inputs and reference for
those who
want to conduct the following classroom research.
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