Chapter
1
Introduction
This introductory
chapter presents the background of the study, statement of problems, objectives
of the study, scope and limitation of the study, significance of the study, and
definition of key terms
1.1. Background of the
Study
After the end of the Second World War in 1945,
many people wanted to learn English not for the pleasure or prestige of
knowledge, but because English was the key to the international currencies of
technology and commerce (Hutchinson & Waters:1999). And today English has a
big role in educational field, medicine, economy and many others.
English related to
educational, Saukah (2000:16) argued that the objective of teaching English in
Indonesia is to enable students to use English for communication. Then that is
why the basic aim of language teaching is to develop communicative competence.
It means that to help students recognize and produce language, which is not
only correct in term of linguistic feature but also appropriate in social
situation in which it is being used. The communicative competence includes four
skills they are: Listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among the fourth
skill based on writer’s observation at the eighth grade students of SMP
KH.HasyimAsy’ari, writing is considered the most complicated one for the
students to master. They were still making errors when they started to write
simple essay paragraph, such as descriptive, narrative and recount paragraph that are, they still
confused how to write a good paragraph that involve topic sentence, supporting
sentences, and concluding sentence. This problem occurred because of the
influencing of their mother language and their own behavior, how far they activate
to write English paragraph. Therefore, the writer wants to use paragraph
mapping technique to improve their writing skill and to develop their activeness
and happiness even their preference in learning English.
1.2. Statement of Problems
Based on the
description above, the writer formulates the problems of the study as follows:
1.
How can the paragraph
mapping technique improve the eighth grade students’ writing skill at SMP
KH.HasyimAsy’ari Malang?
2.
How can the
paragraph mapping technique increase the eighth grade students’ activeness in
writing English?
1.3. Objectives of the study
Referring to
the statement of these study problems above, the objectives of the study are:
1.
To describe how
paragraph mapping technique can improve the eighth grade students’ writing
skill at SMP KH. HasyimAsy’ari
2.
To describe how
paragraph mapping technique can increase the eighth grade students’ activeness
in writing English.
1.4.
Scope and Limitation
1.4.1. Scope
The researcher
will direct to certain setting of teaching and learning writing skill on the
eighth grade students at SMP Hasyim Asy’ari Malang by using technique of
paragraph mapping.
1.4.2. Limitation
The researcher will conduct the research when the practice teaching
begins in the end of January 2012. The researcher realizes that the time is
just one a half month to take practice teaching, but the writer can insure that
it will be enough to cover the teaching learning-activity.
1.5.
Significant of study
The researcher hopes that this study will be useful as practical. The
eighth grade students at SMP KH. HasyimAsy’ari Malang and the writer as a teacher
even for everyone who are involved can apply the paragraph mapping technique in
teaching and learning especially English writing skill. As practical, all
people involved in learning English can apply this paragraph mapping technique
when they write narrative, descriptive, recount and the other paragraphs.
1.6.
Definition of
Key Terms
Improving: It means that increasing students’ English writing skill by using paragraph mapping technique so that they can
write paragraph well and get higher
score than before.
Writing: One of the English basic skills that the students must have, and
this skill is an activity of producing
words on a surface.
Skill: the students’ ability in four
English basic such as writing, speaking, listening, and reading.
According to Cambridge School Dictionary, skill is having abilities
needed to do an activity or job well.
Paragraph Mapping Technique:
One way to teach the students, it can be called a method that the
teacher uses to explain how to write a paragraph well.
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