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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter is divided into seven parts. They are background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statements of the study, objectives of the study,
significance of the study and the outline of the report.
1.1 Background of the Study
As stated by Kurbanov 2013 “the goal of learning language based on current curriculum Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan that issued by The
Department of National Education Depdiknas in 2006, is to develop and to improve the communication skill or genre competence.” Therefore, students are
highly expected to have good ability of language skills in case of communicating with others.
Basically, there are four skills that should be mastered by student who wants master English. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing
may be the most complicated one. In order to get a good product from writing process, a student should masters some elements such as grammar, vocabularies,
mechanic, relevance, and fluency. When the researcher did the observation at Praktek Pengalaman
Lapangan PPL program at State Junior School 1 Mungkid, she found that the English teacher there taught writing conventionally. He explained the material of
narrative text to his students orally. At the end of the lesson, he asked the students to write a simple narrative text based on his explanation. Most of the students
found the difficulty to create the story. They did not know how to start and construct a narrative text. Finally, they just copied out the text from their text
book. Actually, there was an LCD in every classroom of the school but, the
teacher used it just to deliver the material instead of use it as a teaching media. Therefore, the students were easily to get bored. Teaching using media is effective
and interesting. This is proved by the fact the researcher found when she did the teaching practice. Most of the students were more interested when they were
taught using media than when they were taught conventionally. Unfortunately, the problem of writing narrative text is also faced by the
students in State Junior High School 1 Jati Kudus. From the teachers‟ interview in
preliminary observation, the researcher found that the students had difficulty in creating and constructing paragraph. Another result of the interviewing, almost all
of the teachers stated that they used conventional way in teaching writing. They explained the material orally before they asked their students to write a narrative
text. After the researcher knew
the students‟ problem, she tried to find a good medium to solve the problem.
“Build Your Story” by Andrew Wright on his book Creating Story with Children 2002 is considered as a medium to solve the
problem. It is expected that this medium is effective for the teaching of writing narrative text. However, this expectation need to be proved in this study.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
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