Background of study INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents of background of study, statement of problems, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key term.

1.1 Background of study

English is an international language; it means that it is used for communication among people in this world. Learning and understanding English are not easy as learning and understanding our own language because English is purely a foreign language for us. Learning English has four language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Each of those language skills must be mastered by the learner as well as possible. Students’ ability to speak English is one of the main objectives of English teaching and learning English because speaking becomes an important part of the teaching learning process. In order the students built their English competence in speaking, the teacher should be able to use technique to improve students in their communicative competence. The writer believes that there are many approaches in teaching English to make students interested in studying English language especially in speaking. Here, the writer wants to research the Communicative Language Teaching CLT approach in teaching speaking at Islamic boarding school of MAN 3 Malang. Communicative Language Teaching CLT has been known as an approach which is emphasized on students’ communicative competence. According to Larsen-Freeman 1986, language errors are tolerated and seen as a natural outcome of the development of c ommunication skills. This approach is not suggested to correct students’ error when they speak or communicate a bilingual language. As long as the expression in the target language can be understood by the others and a little errors may be ignored because correction are done when the errors may hinder the understanding of the communication. Madrasah Aliyah Negeri MAN 3 Malang is one of the five boarding school models in East Java, Indonesia. MAN 3 Malang is a boarding school which has non- formal program c alled Ma’had Al-Qalam. Ma’had Al-Qalam offers an educative program to boost students’ communicative ability, which demands the students using English and Arabic language in their daily communication. As the learning material, Ma’had Al-Qalam MAN 3 Malang uses “Welcome to English “Issue 1 and 2, “Test your Vocabulary “Issue 1 and 2, and “Daily Vocabulary” as the primary handbooks during their language learning activity. The researcher has mini observed that Al-Qalam Islamic boarding school of MAN 3 Malang used Communicative Language Teaching CLT approach because students are to be active in speaking using bilingual language in their daily communication. The main concern of teaching is communication with ease in the target language without being occupied with error correction. A according to Morrow 1986, one of the characteristic features of communicative approach to language teaching is that it enables us to make assumption about the types of communication we will equip learners to handle. CLT approach applied Al-Qalam Islamic boarding school of MAN 3 Malang employs several rules to its students. In this case, they have to speak English in daily communication such as the students should use English for 24 hours in their daily communication as the reflection of CLT approach. In Islamic boarding school has motto in implementing the rules of boarding school as follow: “Arabic and English is our crown, by Arabic we can master Islamic world and by English we can master the world”. So this motto support to students will be more struggles in learning bilingual language. Rivi 2009 in his study stated that Al-Hikam boarding school had good circumstance to make English environment alone. The students live together in a dormitory all the time. It is the same as in Al-Qalam Islamic boarding school of MAN 3 Malang where the s tudents also live together in a dormitory. In Rivi’s study, it is only focused on speaking context but in this study the researcher focused on a whole management on English instruction at Ma’had Al-Qalam MAN 3 Malang. Based on this explanation, the writer is interested in this research because the writer wants to know if this language teaching method can improve students speaking ability or not ,to see the problems faced by teacher in the implementation of CLT and to give solution of the problems. Thus, the writer does this research with the title “The Problems in Implementing of CLT in Teaching Learning Process at Al-Qalam Islamic Boarding School Programs of MAN 3 Malang.

1.2 the statements of problems