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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

A. Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Language teaching is influenced by ideas on the nature of language Language theories and the learning conditions that make learners to acquire the language learning theories. Learning English as a foreign language is different than learning English as a second language. 12 Teachers should be able to hold classroom well. They must try to manage the classroom with interesting technique as Broughton states: “English language teaching has gone on and it is clearly part of the professionalism of a teacher of English to foreigners to be aware of the context in which he is working and of how his teaching fits into the scheme of things. However, for most teachers the primary focus of attention is the classroom, what actually happens there, what kinds of personal encounter and teaching is very much a matter of personal encounter and especially what part teachers themselves play there in facilitating the learning of the language”. 13 In teaching English, teachers must focus on the process of teaching and learning. They also must know what is happening in the classroom activities so the target of language will be reached well. In teaching English as a foreign language the teachers 12 Ag. BambangSetiyadi, Teaching English as a Foreign LanguageYogyakarta: GrahaIlmu, 2006, p.20 13 Geoffrey Broughton, et.al., Teaching English as a Foreign Language 2 nd Ed.New York: Routledge, 1980, p.12 help and guide the students how to learn English easily. As Brownstates that teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, guiding in the study of something providing with knowledge causing to know or understand. Teaching English as a foreign language means that English is taught by people which English is not their mother tongue or their native language. Broughton says that in the rest of the world, English is a foreign language, that is taught in schools often widely, but it does not play an essential role in national or social life. 14 In teaching English or other languages actually we have to teach the four skills.According to Brown, for more than six decades, research and practice in English language teaching has identified the “four skills”, they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. 15 According to statements above, the researcher assumes of teaching and learning English as a foreign languagenot so difficult if the learners do a lot of practice and are exposed to situation that content English elements on it. The students should practice their English regularly both inside the classroom and outside the classroom.The students can also participate in growth of the globalization era. The students study English in the school. It does not play in their daily activity but it has good intentions for the students. 14 Geoffrey Broughton, et.al,Op. Cit., p.6 15 H. Douglas Brown, Teaching by Principles An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy 2 nd Ed.New York: Longman, 2001, p.232