THE USE OF DIARY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING
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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
