Background of Problem INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

I. Background of Problem

English teaching is emphasized on the development of the language skills, i.e listening, speaking, reading, and writing. As a part of the subjects in schools, English consequently should be learnt by Indonesian students through the mastery of the four skills. However, it is not easy to master it, since the encounter many difficulties. Those difficulties appear because of many causes. In some cases, English is hard to be learnt because it has different grammatical structures from Bahasa Indonesia or students ’ mother tongue. Therefore, the teachers should make English learning easy and interesting. In this case, the teacher can use development of Newspaper as learning material, for teaching and learning activities. There are many advantages of Newspaper as learning media in the English teaching- learning process according to Mehta 2010:56. 1 The students will be motivated to learn English because they will not be bored, 2 The students can develop affection and interest toward the use of English Language, 3 The English teachers’ can make the process of learning interesting and innovative, 4 Flexible and adaptable to all curriculum areas and grade levels, 5 Offer a wide variety of knowledge and information news, sports, editorials, entertainment, comics, etc, 6 Contain practical vocabulary and the best models of clear, concise writing, 7 Develop listening, speaking, 1 reading and writing of the students, 8 Explore and unfold the world of knowledge and information, 9 Helpful in learning grammatical usages, carefully crafted sentence structures and idioms and phrases besides new words. However, there are some problems that are faced by most of the English teachers ’ related use of learning material. First, some schools do not maximise to use English newspapers, i.e the school subscribes the English newspaper but do not use for teaching- learning activities. Second, the English teacher has difficulties to find activity from newspaper that are appropriate to the students’ needs. That is why the teachers teach English by using textbook and students’ worksheet. Then, there is no provided advanced technology in the each class such as LCD as the important facilities in the teaching- learning process. Therefore, some common activities are still listening to the teachers’ explanation and reading the materials. These conditions bring effects to the students. For example, the students have low motivation and easy to get bored in learning English. In addition, they have low achievement in all English skills.

II. Identification of the Problems