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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Today, students are expected to be able to communicate through English as the demand of the improved curriculum and the competence. Therefore, the
students must be able to share their ideas, opinions, experience in the spoken
language as well as in the written language in every situation and place.
Based on the curriculum 2013 for Junior High Schools in Indonesia, it is mentioned that learning English is not only in the class but also at home and
society. The teacher is not the only learning resource. The students must be active to explore many sources to improve their knowledge. They can get it from many
sources, such as books in the library, other friends or from interactive media such as comics, macromedia flash and even games.
In terms of written English, the writing ability is very low due to many aspects such as grammar, punctuation and the spelling. And it is related to another
fundamental problem in terms of interest in learning writing as they do not have enough basic knowledge and interest in writing. Therefore teachers have to
determine the effective strategies to improve their interest and ability in writing. And the main problem that leads to the low interest in writing is the lack of media
that can give them a big picture of the story they want to write. The use of interesting media also contributes to the better learning
process,, both improving students’ participation and their interest in classroom
activity which might lead them to have better ability in writing. The teaching and
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learning process will not be able to be conducted well if there are some problems related to the student’s good interest in the learning process. Another advantage of
the improvement in the learning process is to reinforce and help the students in the learning process. Students who have good interest in learning will have better
ability and act to follow the process of learning. Besides the students ’ interest will
also help them to learn every activities in the classroom, especially learning writing the recount text.
Students’ low interest and lack of ability in writing their ideas with correct grammar, vocabulary and punctuation are some indicators showing their lack of
writing practice and media utilization in teaching writing. The first indicator is the students’ low interest in writing compared to their interest in speaking. They
prefer expressing their ideas orally to expressing them in the written forms. As a result, they can speak English fluently but they cannot write well. Another
indicator is most of the students find difficulties in using the correct grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to compose English sentences into readable and
acceptable texts.
B. Identification of the Problem
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