CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION - Using magazine articles to teach descriptive writing to the third semester English Department students of Widya Mandala Catholic University - Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya Repository

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1-1 Background

of

There are
English,

the
four

namely:

writing.

Study

skllls

in

every

list.eni.ng,

speaking,

As 'rne of the f r:ur skills,
in most Engllsh

Eve.

are

arguments

teaching


stnclent,s

conunand of

the

important, .

For

given

today,

lnternationaf
learn

the


lmportance

language,

to write

1n Englieh

for

Thus, in terms of

eeen

occupy an equal

(White,

skills


among

the

ek11ls,

consiclered
teaching

the
a

Ieaet

language.

language

skillE


the

of wrlting

roLe

language .

felt

may

of

be

that

more


true ,

but

as

an

need

to

people
or

academic

stucient needs, writing

role


with

the

a

is

English

occupationaf

n{lt

may be

other

langnage


li

hnt.ro*o-

1 9 8 1: 1 )

( 1991:8 )

Leki

this

ly

t-or

reaciing

more and more


purposes.
to

is

spoken langr-rage ancl of
stuclents,

traclitional

for-warci

becarrse it

rnany

anci

language syllahruses.


sornetirnee, put

to write

including

reading

writing

h a s o c c r , r p j - e c la p l a c e
so.

langnage,

agrees that
writing

has


important
It

in

r.ce

been

skill

was the most

rnany years

to

trr

tradi.tionally
be

taught

ignc,r.ed

ago. Now, att,itudes

have changed in teaching

of

rn
the

towarde
a

second

Writ ing has now become much mone i mr'or'tant

tn

',]

the

second

J.angrrage eurr l cir lum .

It

ls

essentlai.

rol.e

activitj-es.
natural

true
in

outlet

for

informatlon.

D'Angelo

Writing

alen

or

even our thoughts,

or

academlc

the

etates

to

When

the

to
the

take

wrlting

with

1s a meane of

and

gathering

of

out that

wrlting

roLee

news,

clo our

writing.

filee,

people

Bee.i.des,

t.

say.

In

be adventurous

they

themselves,

bec'me
and

in

glves

it

go beyond what has

to

in

occupatlonal

other

want to

16

thought.

lmportant

wlth

strrrlents wri.te,

language,

thelr

Eet our Jobs,

risks,

the

in

hletoriee,

ehape what they

le

experiencee

very

student,s have an oppontrrnity
language,

writing

facilitlee

communlcate

learnlng

their

points

lmportant

an

on

1deas,

has played

plays

reflectione

says that

away througb

time

that

because lt

taeks,

mil,es

tarrght.
with

teaching

(1980:b)

We can etore

students

language

exploring

1n educatlon,

mlllion

wrltlng

studente'

she aleo

of

soclety.

nowadaye

and reading

inventing,

case,

the

llstenlng

seeond ,tang'age.

valuable

the

( lggf:g)

Lekl

speaking,

that

thte
with
been

i.nvoLved

wlth

thelr

audi.eneeHavlng studled
Depar:tment
havlng

of

observed

1nforrnalJ.y,

for

eleven

Wj.dya Manclala
and

the writer

semesEer at

CathoLlc

tntervlewed
has come to

eome
the

the

Englleh

Unlversity,
of

her

conclusion

and

frlends
that

the teachers
when they
are

teach

aeked

Therefore,
no

of writing

deecrlptlve

to
the

writing

of

new

moii-vation
decided

Magazine

magazj_ne articles
learners.

By

l-earners

will

situatlon.

strrdents

teaching

to

write

them-

because there
students

them

in

Ie

need

descriptive

play

a poslt.lve

exposed to

lesson

boredom

of

the
thlng
if

students
knowledge_
in

le the

(1ggo:87)

eays that

in

students

will

can

a

be

are

wrlting
of

new

routlne
broken,

avoided,
enjoy

real_

stlnulate

lot

the

the
the

in

composlng

Moreover,

be

articles,

language

gather

will

the
Widya

rol-e in motivating

idea

magazine articres

to
of

the classroorn will

students

"using

writlng

rnagazine

ean

the

Students

to process

their

interest

entitred

magazine articles

to develop

and

AheIla]

the

writing,

thesis

Department

Unlversity".

outslde

students,

descrlptive

this

be prepared

Besldes,

more

rnaterial_e

to Teach Descrlptlve

being

wri-ting

important

in

In addltion,

information

other

English

Mandala Catholic

tasks.

that

Articres

Semester

Lesson

can lnterest

atudente

around

Aetua1ly,

i_mportant to promote the

are

writer

the

situation

materlaL.

that

Sornetlmee,

class.

textbook

Thi.rd

the

book and plcture

get bored eaeily

students

Conslderinc

and

wrltlng.

describe

development

somethlng

ueuall_y use text

and

the

ueerl

of
the
the

wrttlng

eklllfur1y

( Finnochi,aro.

19?4:7 ) .

Development
of
the

of material

language teaching
factors

learning.
who

that
This

and learning

confirmed

introducing

proeess

needed in the
since

can decrease the
idea is

says that

is

k,oredom is

students'

one of

motivation

(1g84:5)

by Cefcemurcia

a new material

in

into

learning

activities

wlll

the teacher

can develop material

that

make the class

more

enjovabl-e

and

the

students

wl]1

be

motivated

to

conclrrded

that.

motivate

the

arouse externa]

less

form of

routine,

l-earn.

From this

materiaf

studentg

is

to

l-anzuage.

Theref ore.

interested

to

tbe

introduce

statement.

reall,V

learn

of

t.he etudents

writ,er

of

any other

types

1-2 Statement

of

Based

on

above the
"How
writing

the

this

be
to

target

studv
as

i6

teachine

Magazine articles

interest

deecriptive

If

and motivation

writ.lng

as we]l

as

of wrlting.

the

Problem

the baekground

statement

of

of

the

the problem of

can magazine artlcles
class?"

the

can

factor

and practlce

magazine articles

to raise

t.o write

1t

important

mat.erial-s to teach clescripti ve wniting.
are hoped to be able

motivation.

6tudy

this

be presented

described

thesis
i-n

is:

descriptive

1-3 Ob.jecti,ve
In

of

line

t.he

objective

way

to

the

Strrdy

with
of

present

the statement

this

strrdy is

of

the problem

intended

magazine articles

given,

to describe

in descriptive

the

writing

cla6s.

1-4 Sierrificance

students

to

w1l1lnely

writinF

t.o help

Hopefully,

c 1aag.

of

Study

Realizing

that

it

choos j,ng
magazines

the
that

teachi.ng
is

one,

chosen

there

1earning

neceeeary
only

Furthermore,

to

that.

more

atmosphere

of

this

i.s

study

well-informed

more

students

are many kinds

knowledge

the
i6

wil-1

of

scope of

magazi ne

are Freeeray. Horizon,

this

materials
thinks
study

a r ^ ti c 1 e s .
Life,

be

their

in

j.es, the wri.ter

activit

IlmLt

mot ivate

magazine art,i.cles
for

writing

1-5 Limitat,ion

in

clasa.

to

articles

and interesting

beneficial

descriptive

magazine

magazi"ne art j-cles contain

since

exceptlonally

meant

forming hroad-mi,nded and

in

information.

rrsed

read

or

in a new, fresh,

students
and

Strrdy

of t.his strrdv is

learn

descriptive

also

the

resrrl t.

The

a

of

by
The

National

6

Geographlc

and

Neweweek.

magazinee are eultabre
Engliab
in

departnent

their

le also

place

object,
to

find

This

of

the

etudiee

and

magazlne

all

arti.oles

l-iterature,

she trie6

ideas

to

a

different

wrltlng

and

more

the

1 e meant to

eaae

and to

facilltate

the

to

research.

c1aee.

can

be

Based

t,o develop

At

frorn the

vj.ews and aepecte

of

applied

on

the

magazlne

the

library.
wrltlng
1n

the

available

her crwn poi.nt

of

vier.,

articles

in

wri.tlng.

Key Terme

avoidmleunderstanding
terne

taeke.

the data

which

deecr iptive

of

about

topics

Thls

library

show the ueage of

1.7 D,efinltion

necessary

contaln

Study

coLlects

descriptlve

aborrt the

etuclents

to

articlee

ie

the writer

She

To

limited

and people.

the

thesie

beginning,

teaching

the

of

univereity

because they

to do the deecri_pt1ve wrlttng

1-6 Hetbodology

and

for

thoee

eemester etudente

clase

language

etudy

teacher

etudents

eonelder

and utr to date arttcles.

Thie
animal-,

the thlrd

wrlting

comprehend

interesting

wrlter

of widya Mandara cathoric

descriptlve

eaey-to

the

for

The

used in this

define

the

theeis,

following

and

mlelnterpretatlon

the wrlter
key terms

finds

eo that

it
the

discussion
the

about this

thesis

will

be easily

understood

by

readers

l-7 -L Writing
Writing
work-finding
truth

them.

on paper.

thinking

facts,

of

Thinking

reaching

fact.s (Dagher.

ls

relation-shi p,

seeing

mind

testing

eonclusion

and

The mind prodr.rce a huge vari ety

opini.ons.
the

is

of

at
the

forming

lrleas,

and

1976:3).

7 -7 .2 f)escri.pt,ive Writine
writine

Descriptive
that

presents

looks.

feeIs.

( Martin

a pict.ure.

one kind

of writj-ng

shows the reader

or what it

tastes,

and Kroi tor.

is

how

sciunds like

types

something

to

describe

. l. 9 7 9 : 9) -

1-7-3 Hagazine
Masazine

is

at a grorrp having

material

ciireeted

interest,

or profession

Tnternati.onal

periodical

a

as education

Di ctionanv,

containing

special

a particular
(Web6ter-s

hobby,
Third

1 . 9 8 6 :1 3 5 7 ) .

l-7 -4 Article
An
6pecific

arti-cle
topic

is

a factual

pi-ece of

( r . a n d o mH o r r s e D i c t i o n a r y .

writlng
1981:21)-

on

New

I.8

Organizatlon
Thie

ehapter
study,

theele

statement

deale

of

uelng

wlth

of

it

flve

containe

the problem,

will

of

of

the

dieeuaeed

Iiterature,

that

1n
i-n

of

etudy.

of

definition

uelng

II

chapter
magazlne

The applleation

teachlng

V.

the

Chapter

IV.

the whole thesis

ie chapter

of

while

wrltlng.

chapter

flrgt

elgntflcance,

the strrdy, the

descripti_ve
artlcles

The

background

objective,

related

and euggestione

chapter,

ehapter.

eome conslderatlone

magazlne

concLuslon
laet

review

in teaching

writing

the

coneist

key terme and organlzatlon

anticles
of

Study

and methodology of

cl:-seuesee the
III

the

1s lntroductlon;

Iimitation
of

of

deecrlptlve
WhiIe
will

the
be ln

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