USING THE PICTURE AND PICTURE METHOD TO IMPROVE THE
STUDENTS WRITING SKILL
(AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI)
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Writing skill is a
skill is required in many contexts through life. You can write an email,
reflect on what happened during the day in your personal diary or write essay
for your homework. The essay is a very
difficult genre. Professors and lecturer also write essay but the call them
“papers”. It is not unusual for academic staff to spend weeks, and even months
(sometimes year!) working on a paper. No one finds the process
of essay writing easy. Part of the difficulty is that is important to say
exactly what is required in a limited word limit. Most people could cover the
topic with an unlimited word limit and unlimited time. Being brief and
succinct- and yet covering everything that needs to be covered- is always a
challenge. This is the main difficulty in writing essay.
According to Torrance, Waes & Galbrait (2007) writing is a visual representation of
spoken language. Whatever specific form of writing a writer is engaged in, they
will have to be able to transcribe language according to the conventions of a particular
writing system, and be able to decode visual symbols into their corresponding meanings.
Learning how to do this is not a trivial achievement: It is a main focus of
early years education and, in modern literate cultures, is the subject of huge
investments of economic and social resources. It is also something which,
unlike speech, significant number of people across the world fail to master,
either for socio-cultural reasons or because of cognitive difficulties like
dyslexia.
In facilitating the students in learning writing, English teachers should also provide materials
that are appropriate with the curriculum and find suitable methods in teaching
and learning process. Thus, media are to?????
