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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Having a good self-management gives the students a chance to develop their
learning better than those who do not manage themselves. By having self- management, the student can manage what time they want to study and what
motivation they need to learn to improve their writing skills in English language learning. It does not only have the relationship with the time but it has also the
relationship with them. Therefore, it is the best way to do in order to maximize our English learning development by using this strategy.
2.1. Theoretical Description
This section consists of theories which are significant and suitable to support the research. The theories explained are self-management and writing skill.
2.1.1. Self-Management
Self-management is the important thing to do to improve students’ learning.
“Manage is a process that comprises a series of actions that led to the accomplishment of objectives” Newman, Summer, and Warren, 1967, p. 9.
Management is doing the right thing in order to get the efficiency in climbing the ladder of success Peter Drucker and Warren Bennins as cited in Covey, 1989. Self
means ours, our body, and mind. When the students do not manage their mind to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
9 do something, their body will be useless of doing nothing. Dembo 2004 explains
that self-management is the factor which is able to influence the students in learning, establishes optimum conditions for learning, and removes obstacles that
interfere with learning. Chamot et al. 1999 stat es that “self-management involves
seeking or arranging the conditions that help you learn and focusing on what you know, including language structures, topics, and personal experiences” p. 20.
Therefore, self-management refers to a strategy by which individuals can effectively direct their own activities toward the achievement of objectives which
includes goal setting, decision making, focusing, planning, scheduling, task tracking, self-evaluation, and self-discipline. By managing themselves, it will be
able to choose whether the students want to learn or not. What makes it difficult to learn, what makes it interested in learning something, and what students will learn
today, have the relationship with the self-management. It does not have the relationship with the teachers, parents or friends. It has the relationship with the
students themselves.
2.1.1.1. Self-Motivation Management
Since it talks about self-management, it will have the relationship to self- motivation. Recently, there were two surveys which were conducted and done by
American College Testing ACT and the Policy Center on the First Year of College as cited in Downing, 2011, p. 65. In both surveys, it was identified that lack of
motivation was the number one barrier to the student success. Lack of motivation has various causes, such as the students often skip the class, late submission of
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