Strategy in Motivating Students to Study English at SMK

Strategy in Motivating Students to Study English at SMK

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents background of the research, statement of research problems, objectives of the research, significance of the research, scope and limitation of the research, and definitions of key terms.

A.  Background of The Research

Generally  education  is  one  way  to  reach  maturity  in  variety  of things.  Every  citizen  has  the  right  to  get  education  (Amandement  of  UUD 1945,  Chapter:31  Verse:1).  Education  have  an  important  role  in  the development  and  progress  of  society.  Forward  or  backward  a  society  is dependent from the forward or backward of the public education. Therefore, education  is very  important  and  should  be  given  primacy  in  achieving  the public development.

Without  education,  it  is  believed  that  the  human  at  now  is  no different  with  the  human  at  past  generations,  which  is  compared  with  the human at now, has been very behind both in quality of life and empowerment processes. In the extreme it can be said, that forward or backward and good or bad of society civilization or nation will be determined by how the education??????

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Increasing the Students Listening Comprehension through Dictoglos strategy at the Second Year Students of SMA

Increasing the Students Listening Comprehension through Dictoglos strategy at the Second Year Students of SMA

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.    Background

         Everybody has learned their language since they were children, especially their mother tongue. The process occurs naturally and properly with a view to communicate in society environment. Listening comprehension plays an important role in building communication skill, as well as we know, communication is a part of human’s daily activity. Through communication by using language, we can share our ideas with other people. In that way, a smooth interaction between people can take place.

English is one of language that has been learned in many countries. As an international language, it has significant role to assist human communicating one another, more over, in globalization era. Mastering English both written and spoken are absolutely needed, especially for Indonesians who live in a developing country. Besides, it is useful to follow the globalization era to become a modern nation. Thus, English is taught formally in high school as a compulsory subject, even now the elementary schools have begun to introduce English in their curriculum (Nurmayanti, 2008: 1).

Psychologically, many factors influence the success of learning, such as, the teacher and the learner. The success of learning depends on the teacher and learner. Rasyid (1990), the factors influencing the low achievement of language class are low motivation and interest of the students.

Therefore, in this case the English teachers have to consider how to motivate, arouse the students’ interest and ability, and also look for ways to make the teaching of the language more interesting, so that the students will enjoy learning it and they can improve their ability on the language.

In learning language, there are some basic skills that the students have to master. One of these basic skills is listening. Listening is the foundation of all human communication

Listening is one of the most important language skills. Feyten (1991) claims that more than 45% of communicating time is spent listening, which clearly shows how important this skill is in overall language ability.  However, the students always think it is difficult to listen well because sometimes they are bored and not interested in the subject. The lack of interest and motivation of the students to study may be caused by the methods and techniques that are not suitable with the students’ need or the students’ interest. Of course it can be the serious problems for the students. As the result, they are not enthusiastic in learning English and it can influence their achievement such as in listening comprehension.

As a teacher, it is important to find out some methods to solve the problems that faced by the students. One way to attract the students’ attention in learning English especially for listening is using dictogloss strategy. The use of dictogloss as a strategy in teaching listening

Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension through Guided Reading Strategy at the Second Year of SMPN 1.”

Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension through Guided Reading Strategy at the Second Year of SMPN 1.”

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.    Background

Globalization is new term describing new conditions which all nations, societies or formal state become close one another. In this era our world seems to be smaller before. People agree that globalization is caused by communication and information instrument, particularly those which something to do with technology, for instance, radio, television, internet, etc. Indeed the globalization era cannot be separated from

the concept of information and the role of language such English and Arabic. Whether we like or not, we are obliged to master foreign languages. (Noer: 2006)

   Language is used to communicate with others and it permits sharing of ideas and experiences. One of those languages is English language which becomes an international language. English is considered in applied as international language. Since then, it is very popular and has been spoken and learnt by almost people in the world. In Indonesia, English has been taught in educational institution as one of the important skill. To know English well, people must be able to speak, read, write, and listen.

Reading is one of the major skills to master English. By reading we can get information, knowledge and pleasure. Today there are so many books are written in English. Since the students study at the Elementary School, Junior High School, Senior High School they have been taught English. The priority of teaching English in school is reading because it can cover the three other skills. The people who always read books are written in English, they will easier to do the other skills as Achsin (1985) states that “reading skills involves the three other skills: listening, speaking and writing.” But, the problem is most of the student cannot catch or comprehend what they are reading. Students may have ability to read English reading material, but it does not mean that they can also comprehend reading material. They are also difficult to read aloud with good pronunciation.

Based on the result of observation before in PPL at SMPN 1 Pallangga, the students’ ability to read or catch what is actually stated in the text (literal) and what is implied or meant in the text (interpretive) is low. Therefore, the students need teaching strategy which can improve their skill in reading comprehension. Many strategies have been applies in schools or collage just to make the students understand what they have learned, and of course each strategy has good values for students. And this research tries to apply a strategy namely “Guided Reading Strategy”.

Williams states that guided reading is concerned with the teaching of reading; it is not just about hearing children read. There should be a specific focus and learning objective for the reading session. Guided reading includes not only the decoding of a text, but also the understanding and interpreting of that text. Students should engage with the text, critically evaluating it and reflecting on their responses to it, bringing prior knowledge to their understanding of the text. In guided reading, students develop the skills of inference, deduction, justification and evaluation.

Based on the statement above, the researcher is interested to study entitled “Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension through Guided Reading Strategy at the Second Year of SMPN 1 Pallangga.”

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Inquiry-based learning strategy to improve students’ writing ability

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

            This chapter deals with background, problem statement, objective of the research, significance of the research, and the scope of the research. Each of those points will be discussed in turn in the following section.

A.  Background

English, as a compulsory subject in Indonesia,covers four skills namely listening, writing, speaking, and reading. To organize their teaching,  English teachers usually put a focus on one or two language skills in each of the EFL class. But they also integrate the skill with grammar or structure and vocabulary.

            As the other language skills, writing is the way of communicate a message to a reader for a purpose. Through writing, one can explain or describe things as a result people miles from us can get information by

reading the written message (Dixon & Denise, 1983 ). Writing as a means of communication activity still plays great role up to now. Its importance can be seen not only from its role but also from its function and significant contribution to the development of human life, specially to communicate with the other people. In general, people can take advantage of good writing for finding  jobs, and for the students, writing can help them in learning also for the teacher, it can help them to deliver their message to the students so the students can understand the materials that the teachers deliver.
            The statement above explains that writing is as important as speaking, listening, and reading. By having writing skill, the students are expected to have???????????????

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