CHAPTER II FRAME OF THE THEORIES, THINKING AND HYPOTHESIS
A. Frame of Theories
1. Teaching English as a Foreign Language
There are many languages in the world, so we need the same language for
communication in over the world. English is a global or international language. The global status of English is partly due to the number of people who speak it. It
estimates that in 2,000 there were approximately 1,500 million speakers of English worldwide.
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It has been used by almost all countries in the world either as native, second or foreign language.
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Using English as a tool of communication will help
many nations in the world to convey information each other.
Foreign language is a language studied in an environment where it is not the primary vehicle for daily interaction and where input in that language restricted.
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However, it is seen as a priority, as the most important of the foreign languages to be taught.
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It is so necessary to teach English in schools. Teaching learning English as the foreign
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Allan Lauder,
Journal of Makara Vol. 12, No. 1, Juli 2008: 9-20
: The Status and Function of English in Indonesia: A Review of Key Factors, University of Indonesia, Depok, 2008, p. 10
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Jeremy Harmer,
the Practice of English Language Teaching
New York: Longman, 2002, p. 17
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Marianne Celce-Murcia,
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
3
rd
ed Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 359
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Allan Lauder,
Op. Cit.,
p. 11
is not as simple as English as first language, for the students do not use English for daily communication, for they just learn English when they have English class.
Considering this fact, and remembering in the importance of English, teaching as a foreign language should be put as one of the first priority. This way will be
introduced not only something new about the language to student but also about its culture. Then, to achieve the goal of English teaching needs skillful, creative and
innovative teachers teaching media and another facility which can support achieving the goal. In addition, the teaching should be interesting and appropriate for student. In
teaching English, the teachers should be very energetic who make the students feel excited about learning in order to inspire and keep the students motivation strong.
Therefore, one significant factor that influences most of the successes in teaching and learning English is teachers who have to be able to guide the students into an
understanding of the lesson and to find the way how to make the students enjoy the lesson.
Harmer states in his book, one main tasks for teacher is to provoke interest and involvement in the subject even when the students are not initially interested in it. It
is by their choice of topic, activity and linguistics content that they may be able to turn a class around. It is by class attitude by their participation, they
conscientiousness, their humor and their seriousness that they may influence he
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