Background of the Study

1

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

This research investigates the students’ perception on the use of video as media in learning narrative text. The researcher presents the background of the study, problem formulation, problem limitation, objectives of the study, benefits of the study, and definition of terms.

A. Background of the Study

There are four skills in language teaching. They are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The four skills are related each other. If students want to study speaking and make a conversation, they have to write a script first for their conversation. Then, they have to read it to learn deeper about the script. The last, they must listen to their partners to practice the conversation like a real conversation. That is the simple example how the four skills are having relation to fulfill each other. In order to study the four skills in English, teachers have to use the right method in teaching their students. In this study, the researcher would discuss how students have their own perceptions in using one of method in learning four skills in English. Vernon 1971 said that perception is rapid and accurate, and the observer will be able to react promptly in the appropriate manner without further thinking, and then dismiss the situation from mind. The researcher finds that the opinion as result of reaction from the subjects in seeing or feeling something is called perception. 2 Narrative text is one of the functional texts which had been the part of school curriculum. Based on the researcher’s experience on PPL, the problem occurs when the students have a test on learning narrative text. They have to know the intrinsic and extrinsic aspect from the story. Moreover, students in this research are the students in the third grade and they have to face National Examination. Teacher needs perception of the students in order to get idea what the students’ expectation in teaching and learning activity. If the perception is positive, the teacher can improve the use of video as media in learning narrative text, but if the perception is negative, the teacher has to find another media to make the students understand the learning activity better. The reasons that motivated the researcher to conduct this research is to help the teacher and students to learn narrative text. In addition, video is interesting media in learning activity. The visual side would be interesting for the students. This study would find out the proof that visual side can be helpful for students since it can arouse students concentration that supports the understanding through the listening. Edwards and Willis 2002 argue that video narratives with sound but no words are well suited to research into storytelling skills. In this case, storytelling is not only used in one skill, but also supports the students to learn better in four skills by watching video narratives. Some previous researches dealing with the use of video in teaching showed better results. One of the researcher was Christina in 2009. Christina showed the students’ perception in learning English. Her research was done by involving four skills to analyze students’ perception. She conducted a deeper 3 research in the use of video as media in learning narrative text. The students’ perception in learning narrative text using video as media is important to the growth of educational process. It can show how the media takes part on the better process of teaching and learning activity.

B. Problem Formulation