The Effectiveness
of Using Video
to Improve Students’
Understanding on Writing Spoof Text (An Experimental)
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of The Study
Many countries
all over world, including Indonesia regard English as the first obligatory
foreign language. English
as the first
foreign language has been given a special attention and role
especially in education. This is way the Indonesian government
chooses English as the first
foreign language to be
taught at the formal schools.3 The
purpose of teaching
English is to
master four skills,
they are listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
Teaching and learning
activity in writing need
some skills for
the students to
master. Writing is
frequently useful as preparation
for some other
activity.4 It is
a process of
discovering and organizing ideas,
putting them on
papers, and revising
them.
Writing
allows the students
to express our
ideas well; however,
to get the
meaning strong, interesting, and
clear for the
reader, this skill
must be improved
by practicing a
lot. The importance
of writing can be seen
in people daily
activities when they
need to write
personal letters, invitation,
formal letters, articles, books and the other product writing
activities.
The researcher
considers that writing is the hardest skill for people who learn English
because in writing
process, the students
will face many difficulties in
transferring thought and
ideas in writing
form. Writing has
many examples and a wide variety, so the students need a preparation to
write correctly. In this case, the students need suggestions in the writing
process that has four elements,
they are planning,
drafting, editing, and
final version.5 It means that, writing takes more time to
think, choose the words, and make the>??????
