Background of Study INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of Study

In Indonesia, English has been a second language that is officially placed in formal curriculum. It has been an official lesson that is learned in schools. Quantitatively, educated people who have graduated from high school learned English for six years. They have learned it since they were in first grade in Junior High School until they were in third grade in Senior High School. It means that studying English is very important for Indonesian students. The importance of studying English in a specific way is to prepare Indonesian students to face global challenges in upcoming years. The mastery of English helps Indonesian students to communicate to the foreigners and to read any kinds of English literature. The typical point of English for life also becomes the concern of the teachers and students in SMA Seminari Pius XII Kisol. It implies in the English teaching policy. The real activities that show more attention to English are the program of English day and English competition. The more significant activity in learning English is the duty to write an English paper for the students of grade XII. The paper is one of the requirements for students. By writing the paper, students finally show their competency and ability in English, especially in the way on how to express their thought, organize the ideas and form systematic and critical thinking. The writing of English paper for the seminarian has given advantages. The advantages can be found on their competencies to implement 2 what they have been studying in seminary in a written form. They can write an English paper. Nevertheless, in achieving the target to produce a good English writing, actually the students find difficulties. The content, organization, sentence structure and word choice are not appropriate with the target language situations. The problems are caused by the lack of writing materials course to support them to write an English paper. In fact they only study the grammar, but there is no special course on writing. The competence to write an English paper is only transferred from their understanding to write an Indonesian paper. It means that an English paper that they have produced is the result of translation. They translate word by word, without considering the precise diction to compose their writing. Realizing the difficulties in producing an English paper, the students should learn how to write in English, especially to develop their writing skill. English teacher should provide a set of instructional materials to teach writing to the students. Designing a set of instructional materials to teach writing for students is appropriate with students’ need. It helps students to be competent in writing an English paper. That is why the writer choose “Designing a Set of Process-Genre Based Writing Materials for the Students of Grade XI of SMA Seminari Pius XII Kisol Manggarai Timur Flores” as the title of my thesis. To fulfill this purpose the writer use Competency-Based Language Teaching CBLT as an approach that helps students to be competent in writing. This approach helps the writer in designing the instructional materials to teach writing and provide the syllabus. 3

B. Problem Identification