The Effectiveness of Using Mime Stories towards Students’ Listening Comprehension Ability
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter the researcher serves seven topics related to the study. These topics are cover background of the study, research problem, objective of the research, research hypothesis, significance of the study, and definition of the key terms.
A. Background of the Study
Language plays the important role in education. By using language the process of education runs smoothly. In educational institutions, many people learn languages mainly English language because it is very useful language to communicate with other nations. As we know that English is a foreign language that is taught in Indonesia from Kindergarten School to University as second language. That is why as a country which is use English as a second language, it’s deeply important to learn as early as possible.
As second language learning, understanding a language is not simple, especially when people have to learn it. That is why the process of acquiring that English language skill normally takes a lot of time. Most students as second language learners, want to be able to understand what people are saying to them in
English, either face-to-face, on TV or on radio, and soon. In fact, it is very difficult to them. The difficulty is caused by many factors varying from difference of sounds between the second language learners’ first language and the second>?????
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