IMPROVING
THESTUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH THROUGH PICTURE WORD
INDUCTIVE MODEL (PWIM) AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English, as a
worldwide language, plays an important role in the development of science and
technology. English as foreign language involves four skills, namely: speaking,
writing, reading and listening. In teaching English, those skills must be
taught interestedly as much a possible. These component can not be separated
because they are important taught integrated. Gunnarsson (1997:5) states speaking, writing, reading
and listening overlap one another and in some cases certain learning in one
progression is a prerequisite for learning in another. The interrelationship
between them also mean that no one strand should be considered on its own.
In Indonesia,
English is taught as a foreign language and become a compulsory subject
focusing from the elementary school up to university levels. As we know English teaching used in
elementary school up to university levels, are : oral and written. Oral
communication is a two way process between speaker and listener (or listen) and
involve the productive skill of speaking and receptive skill of understanding
(or listening with understanding).
In listening
comprehension, we don’t only need to involve any overt responses on the part of
the students; on the other hand dictation involves the ability not only to
understand a sequence of text read aloud but also to reproduce it in writing.
Zemach and Islam (2006:1) states
writing is an important form of communication in day-to-day life. Writing is
also one of the most difficult skills to master both first language and second
language. Students can find it challenging to find ideas to include in their
writing.
Some researchers
have shown that the result of the students writing at school is still poor,
especially in writing paragraph. The students often make errors in grammar,
such as errors in the choice of tenses, nouns pronouns and vocabulary. It was
happen because they are rarely done in writing exercise.
One reason for
learning to write is to transmit ideas to other people, especially those who
are at a distance of space. In learning language, writing helps the
students reinforce the grammatical structure, idioms and vocabulary. When the
students write, they also????????
