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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses the background of the study, statement of the problems, purpose of the study, significance of the study, scope and
limitation, and definition of key terms.
1.1 Background of the Study
In this globalization era of technology and science, English is known as an international language and also the world most important language.
Indonesia, as a developing country, also uses English not only to communicate with foreigners but also to study about economy, science, and
technology. People need to be able to understand English, because some communication media, such as TV, radio, internet, are using English. English
is such an important role in many activities; English is needed in every company, business, and foundation because English is an important role of
access to modern technology in Indonesia. For those reasons, English must be applied early.
In Indonesia, English is taught from junior to high school and it becomes the first foreign language
taught to students. Students are expected to improve their skills and knowledge so that they can be citizens who are competent in the future and
have intelligent, skillful, and a good personality.
2 Based on the researcher’s experience, the skill that is considered as
one of the difficult skills is a writing skill. This skill usually becomes a final product task in the learning process. For the students, this skill is considered
as the difficult skill because this skill needs a productive ability to create a kind of text that should be coherent and cohesive.
As a productive skill, writing should produce the written language, which is called a text. In addition, Brown 2001 says that text is the result of
thinking, drafting, and revising procedures that require specialized skills. Those procedures include generating the ideas, organizing the idea coherently,
using discourse markers and rhetorical conventions, revising text for clearer meaning, editing the text for appropriate grammar and producing a final
product Brown, 2001. Teachers have an important role in the classroom. Therefore, they
must create a conducive class and prepare materials that will be delivered to students and use the method, strategy, and technique effectively. Teachers
must be able to apply the technique used in the classroom and choose a variety of techniques so that students will keep interested to learn English
English teaching and learning process need modification, in order to make students more excited and interested in learning English. Teaching is
showing or helping someone to do something, giving instruction, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or
understand Brown, 2000. Therefore, the application of the teaching techniques is very important. By using an interesting technique, the students
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learning process can run well and teaching goals will be achieved.
According to Powell 2002:48, a stimulus is any event that can
potentially influence behavior, while a response is a particular instance of a behavior, the response of one organism can act as a stimulus that influences
the response of another organism. Based on that statement, the researcher would like to identify the behaviors in the teaching and learning process, what
kind of teaching technique used by the teacher, because the teaching technique that used in the class will determine how students’ responses would
be during teaching and learning process. Based on previous study, there were also some techniques used by
teacher related to writing. Herniyawati 2010 conducted a research about technique of teaching writing to the fifth semester students of English
Department at University of Muhammadiyah Malang. Outlining technique was appropriate with students’ understanding in the teaching and learning
process. The researcher finds a problem faced by teacher; students are still having a low motivation to writing. It is essential for teachers to create
favorable situations and activities which are exciting and stimulate students’ mind to make the writing activity more favorable.
4 Considering the statement above, the researcher wants to know
whether other schools use the same techniques in teaching writing or not. Because, by doing this research, the researcher can understand more about the
techniques that are efficient and effective in teaching writing.
The researcher is interested in conducting research about “Students ’ Response toward Teaching Technique Used by Teacher in Teaching
Writing to the Eighth Grade Class of SMP Negeri 1 Kepanjen ”.
1.2 Statement of the Problems
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