THE USE OF DIARY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of The Study
Nowadays in Indonesia, all of the students at schools from primary school to university learn English as a foreign language. The purpose of learning English is that students can communicate in English both oral form and written one. Especially in senior high school level, the students learn all English language skills like speaking and writing.
Writing is one of the four language skills. As stated by Finocchiaro and Brumfit (1983:149), “Writing should reinforce and help extends the listening, speaking, and reading skills”. Writing as one of the four language skills is part of syllabus in English teaching. It can be seen from the curriculum 2004, standard competency of senior high school (Depdiknas:2003) starting the aim of English teaching is “Siswa mampu mengembangkan kemampuan dalam bahasa Inggris dalam bentuk lisan dan tulisan. Kemampuan berkomunikasi meliputi mendengarkan (Listening), berbicara (Speaking), membaca (Reading), dan menulis (Writing).”
From the statement above, the researcher concludes that writing can support the others language skills. It means that writing is a complex domain to learn and to teach because it requires many skills. Before doing and making a good writing, the students need to???
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