The Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of the Study

Teaching learning process of English cannot be separated from the curriculum or syllabus and textbooks teachers use. It is influenced by a view to the language that affects the method and technique of teaching. According to Mackey, “differences in ideas on language learning affect both the method the teaching of it.” 1 Learn English grammar is important because it is the key for us to communicate with the other person especially with foreign people because English is foreign language for us actually for student who is the new in learn of it. As Penny Ur said that, worth nothing here that if communication practice is one of the most important components of the language learningteaching process; it is also one of the most problematical. 2 To make teaching learning process run well, the writer wants to propose an alternative other than teachers centered approach or others, that is the one which commonly known as “Audio-Lingual Method”. The objective of this method is for students to attain conversational proficiency in a variety of foreign languages. 3 Learning English means that we learn not only the four basic skills are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing in order to speak and write English correctly. One of the language components is grammar. The students who study English need to learn grammar so that they can use English well. 1 William Frances Mackey, Language Teaching Analysis, London Indiana University Press, 1967, p. xi 2 Penny Ur, Discussions that Work, task-centered fluency practice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. p. 2 3 Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers, Approach and Methods in Language Teaching a description and analysis, Cambridge: London Cambridge University Press, 1986 , p. 44 1 Grammar, after all, is a description of the regularities in a language and knowledge of these regularities provides the learner with the means to generate a potentially numerous number of original sentences. Grammar is a kind of “Sentence-making machine”. It follows that the teaching of grammar offers the learner the means for potentially limitless linguistics creativity. 4 When students learn language, they need to learn grammar. Event thought, “The place of grammar in the teaching of foreign language is controversial. Grammar may be rough defined as the way a language manipulates and combines words or bits of words in order to form longer units of meaning. 5 The knowledge of grammar is one of the important factors that student should master, in order to be able to listen, speak, read, and write correctly. Grammar needed to have a mastery of four basic language skills. It is concerned with Patricia Osborn said that “understanding grammar can put you more in control of your language and help you become effective when you speak, write, and even read. The communication needs of our students may require that their language conform more closely to the rules of English grammar used by native speaker 6 . Based on these statements above, we can say that grammar is very important to teach and to know; in order to easier understanding of meaning if we talk with other person or if we are communicate also in comprehending the reading text or writing.

B. The Identification of the Problem