Scope of the Problem Statements of the Problem

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1.2. Scope of the Problem

To avoid misunderstanding of the reader about this study, the problems are specified. Writing is too large, so this study is only limited to writing descriptive texts. Despite many kinds of text in writing, the researcher chose descriptive texts as the material based on the curriculum of tenth year students. The researcher focused on giving tasks related to descriptive texts for several meetings. At the end, the writing test was held as a tool to measure whether TBLT is effective or not in teaching writing. Generally, giving the task cannot be avoided from teaching and learning writing. Based on the observation, the common task given to the students is by giving explanation and instruction to make written work directly. Sometimes, not all the students have been ready to start writing, so they were confused what they should do. The difference of the common task and sequence of tasks in TBLT is that in TBLT, some of the tasks were given to students by considering several aspects such as, the interesting theme for the students, the obvious objective of the task, the sequence of tasks which refers to the final task to encourage the students, and what the students need to achieve the objective such as linguistic content, so using TBLT in writing will encourage the students to make written work than without using TBLT or giving the common task . 5

1.3. Statements of the Problem

Based on the background of the study, the researcher formulates the problem as follows: a. To what extent are the tenth year students of SMA N 01 Kandangserang taught with “Task Based Learning and Teaching TBLT” able to write a descriptive text? b. To what extent are the tenth year students of SMA N 01 Kandangserang taught without “Task Based Learning and Teaching TBLT” able to write a descriptive text? c. Is there any significant difference in the students’ achievement in writing a descriptive text between those who are taught with “Task Based Learning and Teaching TBLT” and those who are taught without “Task Based Learning and Teaching TBLT”?

1.4. Objectives of the Study