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Case of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the Academic Year of 20102011 in order to help the students solve these problems.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
The problems under the study are as follows: 1 How is the students’ achievement in the aspect of generic structures of news
item text written by the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the academic year of 20102011?
2 How is the students’ achievement in the aspect of language features of news item text written by the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the
academic year of 20102011? 3 How is the students’ achievement in the aspect of social function of news
item text written by the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the academic year of 20102011?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
Objectives of the study are: 1 To describe how generic structure of news item texts was written by the
tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the academic year of 20102011. 2 To describe how language features of news item texts was written by the
tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the academic year of 20102011.
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3 To discuss how the social function of news item texts was written by the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Mranggen in the academic year of 20102011.
1.5 Significance of the Study
This final project is expected to give some benefits, both theoretical and practical. Theoretically, the writer expects that the result of this study is useful as one way to
enrich the reference in giving description of how generic structure, language features and social function of news item texts written by the tenth graders of State Senior
High School 1 Mranggen in the academic year of 20102011 are. Practically, the writer expects that the result of this study will be useful for the
students of SMA Negeri I Mranggen be motivated to improve their English skills, especially in writing of news item text using Jakarta Post Newspaper since they have
learned the requirements to write a good text. By analyzing its language well, they will have some kind of awareness. Moreover, the writer expects that the result of this
study will be able to make teachers realize, especially English teachers about the importance of emphasizing generic structure, language features and social function in
writing a text and use any kinds of media, such as Jakarta Post Newspaper in teaching learning activity to motivate students in writing.
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1.6 Outline of the Report
