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the study, problem statement, objective of the study, significant of the study and research paper organization.
A. Background of the Study
Language is a communication tool used by most people in the world. Now the variety of language in communication can increase their knowledge. English is one of the languages that becomes the international language. English is also dominant in some fields, such as in education. In the globalization era, besides English in terms of education as the language use for subject, it can also be used to socialize with a lot of people in the daily life.In current education, English became one of subjects taught to students. Although it does not obligate them to master English, but English is introduced early on. It can be useful when they choose overseas schools or in major related to English.
Since English is a foreign language, it is difficult to learn English because English atmosphere as habit or natural approach is so far away. It makes students as the learners feel English as a new language for them. Although English is a foreign language, it is very important to be mastered because it is an international language. English is a foreign language which is developed in Indonesia as a subject in school. Most of Indonesian students consider that it is difficult and confusing lesson. It is caused by the difference between Indonesian structure and English structure. There are four important skills if people want to master English, namely listening, writing, speaking, and reading skill.
using picture and so on. Structure is one of linguistic aspects which students should learn, even though the students may find difficulties in learning and mastering English writing skill. It is important to be learned because it permeates all language skill.
Writing is way to express the idea through writing. The general teaching writing has been taught since students are in kindergarten, but they start learning to write in English while they are in Junior High School and what they also have started to write structured in accordance with the rules of grammar and tenses. So in learning English with writing, students can develop their ideas with other languages, except Indonesian language.
Although English is a foreign language to them because there is also appropriate grammar and tenses of the writing in English, they can learn in many different ways that can make them interested in learning to write in the English language.
Recount text is one of the genre texts that aim to retell the experience that has been done in the past. The experience can be a pleasant experience, sad experience, scary experience or other that functions to entertain the readers.
Generally this text relates the personal experiences in the past. In writing this text, there is a generic structure in recount text. First, orientation, in here students tell who was the subject in the story, where is the scene of the story, and when the story have been done. Second, events, in the events the students tell about chronological sequence of events or occurrences that are there in the story. And the third, re-orientation, in here students tell about the conclusion of the story, as well as message and impression to the readers.
SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta is one of school that located in Jl. R. Moh. Said No.35, Ketelan, Banjarsari, Surakarta. Generally, SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta had the learning aims, namely:
1. Carry out teaching and learning activities guidance effectively.
2. Increase a spirit of excellence intensively to all members of the school. 3. Encourage and assist each student to identify their potential, so they can be
4. Encourage the spirit of deepening Islamic religion and the implementation in everyday.
5. Create discipline and unity of the entire members of the school comunity. While, learning English in SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta is already well. The teachers give direction to students to think creatively, fast, and responsive in learning English in the classroom. In addition to using the book as a media in learning, teachers also allow students to access the internet to increase their knowledge. Because, basically English is a foreign language in our environment, then students need tools to make it easier to learn them in order to be able to follow and understand the learning English well.
At the beginning of a learning English, teacher explains the material refers to the book as well as by giving some examples of material that can be understood by students. After that, the teacher gives time to students for searching additional material on the internet that are accompanied by examples. In addition to oversee the students in learning, the teacher also provides an opportunity for students to ask about things that are not yet understood. After the students are able to understand the material, the teacher gives some questions to be carried out by students; it can be taken from a book or a material made by the teacher.
For learning in the writing of recount text, first the teacher gives the notion of recount text, it is one of genre of the text which describes the experience of the past either happy or sad. In writing this recount text, teachers provided knowledge on students about the generic structure contained in the text. Starting from the orientation which contains of who, when, where, and the second is events which contains about all the events exist in the text, and the last one is reorientation that contains the conclusions or the impression of a message on the author to the reader. Recount texts use the tenses past tense because it happened in the past.
process of writing this, the teacher guides the students to be able to produce a good text.
In here the writer focuses on writing skill especially in recount text. It has occupied a place in most English language course. People need to learn writing in English actually for academic and occupational purposes. To write well, learners should know how to organize idea, construct the sentences and arrange the sentences into coherent paragraphs. Beside that language is difficult, if the vocabulary which the student use is less, so they must study hard to understandthat they write. Reading is included in writing skill, if we read more we can write more too. So the students must read everything in English to know new vocabulary and inside their memory to write something well.
There are many causes why learning English is difficult for the students. Learning to write is a long process. Students have to improve their grammar, choice of words, and use right vocabularies which are difficult for them. The learners can be stuck and cannot elaborate their idea in writing process.
The picture series is one of media that can be used by teachers in providing learning materials to students. The picture series can be used one of them is to write recount text. It is expected to use a series of images of students may be interested in following the lesson and easy to express ideas that they have.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher will conduct a research entitled “THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURE SERIES IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT TO THE TENTH GRADE
STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 SURAKARTA IN 2015/2016
ACADEMIC YEAR”
B. Limitation of the Study
1. The subject of the study is limited to the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in 2015/2016 academic year.
2. The object of the study is limited to the method of picture series in teaching writing recount text implementation on tenth grade of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in 2015/2016 academic year.
The limitation is conducted with a reason of time efficiently, effort, energy, and get the maximum results. Because using the picture series in the writing of the recount text is expected to increase students’ creativity to master vocabulary and facilitate students in writing the sentence helped by picture. In addition, the writer has reason why choosing SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta as a place to conduct the research about using picture series in teaching writing recount text because after the writer observed the teaching learning process in this school, the writer found that the teacher always uses power point as a media in teaching Engish, so it can make the students bored to follow the learning process.
C. Problem Statement
In this research the writer formulates the specific question when the writer conducted this research about the effectiveness of picture series in teaching writing recount text to the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in 2015/2016 academic year. The problems statements are as follows:
1. How is the implementation of the teaching writing recount text using picture series for tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in the academic year of 2015/2016?
2. How is the effectiveness of using picture series in teaching writing recount text for tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta?
D. Objective of Study
Based on the problems statement, the writer intends :
1. To know the implementation of the teaching writing recount text using picture series for tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in the academic year of 2015/2016.
2. To describe the effectiveness of teaching writing recount text using picture series for tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in the academic year of 2015/2016.
3. To identify the strength and weakness the effectiveness of teaching writing recount text using picture series for tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in the academic year of 2015/2016.
E. Significance of Study
1. Theoretically
The result of this research can be expected to know the strategies in use picture series can be effective in teaching writing recount text.
2. Practically
a. Teacher
1) Teachers can use the material easy and they will have a new method for teaching writing using the picture series as a media student learning English.
2) The teachers make this method to be an interesting method in other the students easy to understand in learning English writing.
b. Students
1) The students can be easy to understand about how to write something. 2) It can develop the student’s ability in writing skill.
F. Research Paper Organization
The writer organizes this research paper in order to make it easier to understand. It is as follows :
Chapter I is introduction. It involves background of the study, limitation of study, problem statement, objective of the study, significance of study, and research paper organization.
Chapter II is review of related literature. It deals with previous study, teaching English, teaching writing, teaching writing based on genre, and teaching method.
Chapter III is research method. It presents type of the research, setting of the research, research subject, research object, data and data source, method of collecting data, data validity, and technique for analyzing data.
Chapter IV is research finding and discussion. The research finding is elaborated into the effectiveness of picture series in teaching writing recount text to the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta in 2015/2016 academic year.
