Background of Study INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

This section gives a brief introduction to the area of the research. This chapter includes background of study, statement of problem, purpose of study, hypothesis, significance of study, scope and limitation of the analysis, and definition of key terms.

1.1 Background of Study

Writing is the way of communicating a message to a reader or audience for a purpose. Through writing, people can inform, explain or describe things by reading the written message. For the student, writing can help them in learning process. By reading written subject, the students take the information and get the understanding about the lesson. For the teacher, it can help to deliver their message to the students so the student can understand the materials that teacher deliver. According to Barkaoui 2007:35, writing is one of the most difficult skills that second language leaner‟s are expected to acquire, requiring the mastery of a variety of linguistic, cognitive, and socio-cultural competence. In learning writing skill the students still difficult to mastery every aspect or component, for example about grammatical, looking for the interesting idea that appropriate with the theme, create a interesting tittle, arrange statement for make a paragraph, create a text that appropriate with the text organization and so on. According to the syllabus of tenth-grade students of Senior High School, the students are acquired to translate, understand and write about the kind of text in English with correctly and fluency, in line with the text organization, and grammar. Furthemore, to identity the comprehension of the students, the teacher put question about kind of text on examination and there is also the part of essay, the student must write one of kind of text. Cahyono 2013 mentions that there are twelve types of texts that have to comprehend by Senior High School students, for example descriptive, recount, report, narrative, procedure, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, spoof, discussion, explanation and review text. The researcher chooses narrative as the object of the research. Narrative is the important text that always on the one of subject matter on the lesson and also as question that always applying on national examination. According to Knapp and Megan 2005:220, narrative is not simply about entertaining the readers or audience, but narrative also has powerful of gram mar, text organization and social role”. In writing narrative, student may find some difficulties and make some mistakes. Teachers should help them to solve problem that can help the student to increase their writing narrative. In this case, the teacher need an interesting media to motivate the student and the result is help the student increase the writing ability in narrative. Considering the above conditions, it is necessary to get new media that can involve both the teacher and the students that invites them to participate in the activities. According to Pourhosein 2012, the use of multimedia in teaching and learning leads to higher learning because it is more improve the student understanding. Based on the explanation, the reseacher uses animated movie as the media in the teaching writing in narrative text. In addition, animated movie is a kind of favorite movie, so the students can get more attention on the subject learning. For the result, the students can increase their score in write narrative text. Based on the previous research in the use of picture to improving the students writing skill conducted by Febriyanto 2012, it was found that using picture helps the teacher more easily to get the student attention during the learning process and also increasing the score of students. Based on the second previous research conducted by Putri 2012, the study was about using Bernard bear cartoon movie that is one of favorite movie of students and the result show that students comprehend better in the learning process. In addition, those two previous research inspires the writer of this research to conduct research on the effect of animated movie to increasing students writing skill narrative text at tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kasiman. SMA Negeri 1 Kasiman is located in small village in Bojonegoro regency but SMA Negeri 1 Kasiman have many of students. On every year, SMA Negeri 1 Kasiman obtains about 4-5 classes that consist of 26 until 32 students. But almost of students are still have weakness in writing especially in narrative text. Based on interviews with English teacher of tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kasiman, the score of writing aspect that student gets are still in low level or not rises on KKM. The tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kasiman more gave attention on the interesting subject but on every learning and teaching activities of English the teacher just using English handbook and discussion strategy. It causes the teacher have not much time search media to serve the students. Afterward, using animated movie is believed can develop students ‟ ability in writing narrative text. Thus, this study will make students comprehend better on learning about writing narrative that can show from the score of students.

1.2 Statement of Problem