The Effectiveness of Using Short Movies to Improve The
Students’ Ability in Writing Narrative Text at the Second Year Students of SMP
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents background
of the research, research problems, objectives of the
research, research hypothesis, significance of the research, scope and
limitation of the research, definition of
key terms and organization of the research.
A. Background of the Research
Language is a means of
communication between individuals. It conveys
messages or meaning from someone to
other, from writers or speakers to readers
or listeners. It also brings into
relationship with their environment because
language is an instrument to express
an idea, opinion, mind and feeling.
In Indonesia, English plays an important role and English
becomes the first foreign language learned by the students. They learn English
at school as their foreign language subject
beginning from elementary school up to
university. It is very useful for the students to study English because English
is used as an international language
and people all over the world have
studied English. Therefore mastering English
becomes the most important factors for people who don‟t want
to be left behind by the development of science, trade and technology including
internet.
