CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Students as
beginners in learning English
usually make many mistakes in sentences. Sometimes they find difficulties in
finding idea, they do not know how to arrange the vocabulary that they have
into good sentences. In this case, the teacher should find out solution by
creating efficient and effective techniques of teaching writing that can make
the writing class more interesting, exciting, and enjoyable. It can be done by
choosing the material appropriate with the students and take a techniques in
increasing the writing ability if the students. One of them is “sentences
Reconstruction Technique”.
There are
various ways or techniques that have been used but still remains mistakes,
Risna Akib (2006) find that the students’ ability to write sentence in English
was very poor. It was seen thought the means score that was 46,1. The law
ability the students was concluded based on five criteria of writing, they are:
content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic. It means that
the students need something difference which can improve their motivation in
English learning process. The researcher will use sentence reconstruction
technique in her research because it can help the students to change their
knowledge in write good sentences.
One reason
for learning to write is to transmit ideas to people, especially to those who
are a distance in time and space. Another reason is the writing process helps
you sort out and organize random thoughts, clarify what you really think and
develop ideas. That is why people want to write because writing can be a media
to communicate with others in one community or wider world. If someone can
write well, he or she can communicate with a person who is a thousand of miles
away from him; understand what he means and what he feels.
Relating to
the above statement, the writing skill should be given much attention in
teaching language and teach it previously to the students. In order to,
they are not let behind and can take a role in the modern society. However, the
writing skill is a complex and sometimes difficult to teach; it requires
mastery of not only grammatical and rhetorical devices but also of the
conceptual and judgment element. There are many various skills necessary for
good writing composition. It has five general components of main ideas. They
are language use, mechanical skills, statement of content, stylistic skill, and
judgment skill (Heaton, 1975).
Furthermore,
the ability of mastering the sentence structure enables the students to
combine, expand, and shorten the sentence and further enables them to produce
perfect English with some various ways. Mastering the sentence structure will
be understandable for the listeners and readers. If the students have good
skills in sentence construction, they will be able to make and arrange the sentence
into a paragraph, which is the beginning of how to be a good writer. This is
relevant with what Widdowson stated in Muddin (1992:74) that language learning
consists of efforts to get competence in constructing good sentences and to get
knowledge about sentences or how to use suitable sentences in certain contexts.
In
practicing English writing a sentence reconstruction technique can make the
students to be active in writing. It is one of the ways to increase the
students’ ability in writing. The advantage of using sentence reconstruction
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