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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the writer is going to present about the background of the study, reason for choosing the topic, the statement of the problem, the objectives
of the study, the significance of the study, the outline of the final project.
1.1 The Background of the Study
Language is a means of communication. Many people in the world use the different languages because of their different locations and historic backgrounds.
Ken Hyland 2004: 12 has pointed out, Language is a system of arbitrary, vocal symbols which permits all people in a given culture or other people who have
learned the system of that culture, to communicate or to interact. Wardhaugh 1974: 3 as quoted by Chaedar Alwisah 1986: 40 who said also supports it,
‘Language is a system of arbitrary, vocal symbols used for human communication’. From this explanation, we can say that language is a tool of
communication to express their ideas. As the first foreign language in Indonesia, English has been given special
attention. We can see English not only taught in Junior High School, Senior High School and vacation school but now it is also taught at Elementary school. In
order to make the teaching English successful, we have to consider some factors such as quality of teachers, students’ interest, motivation, teaching technique, and
teaching media which play important roles to achieve the objectives of school learning.
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Based on Curriculum Unit Level Education KTSP, the process of teaching English as stated in Senior high school is to communicate in written and
spoken. To communicate means understand and reveal the information, thought, feeling, and develop the science, technology, and culture. The goal of teaching
and learning English is mainly to prepare the students to have all the language skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four skills must be taught
integratedly. We cannot teach those skills separately, for instance, just teaching speaking or writing since one English, skill influences other skills. According to
Standard Competence at eleven year student of SMA in writing, it is to reveal the purpose of report, narrative, and analytical exposition in daily life context. While
Basic Competence is to reveal the purpose and rhetoric measure in an essay using written language style accurately and fluently in the daily life context in report,
narrative, and analytical exposition texts. Based on those Standard Competence and Basis Competence, the writer wrote this final project.
In this study, the writer tries to find out what method is really good for teaching writing to the students of Senior High School especially in writing
narrative texts. So the writer tries to find out how good the motivation of the year eleven of Senior High School students in learning narrative text using “Peter Pan”
film. By using “Peter Pan” film as a media for teaching narrative text, students
will be more interested and more active in learning. They will feel something new and different from what they usually get in class.
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1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
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