CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
English
is one of the international languages. English is taught from elementary school
to university in Indonesia. Even, English is taught in kindergarten. A
success English learner
is a person
who is master
in all of English
skills. The rapid technological and social change puts forward need for
life long learning. Conventional classroom learning is not able to satisfy such
need. E-learning is an increasingly preferable alternative to conventional
classroom learning.
Moreover,
English become the
only foreign language
which is included in
National Examination (UN)
from Junior High
School to Senior High
School. Then, it
became one of
some decision maker
subject for the students’ graduation to know how well
they understand English during their study. Thus, learning English has been
important to do.
Costley (2014: 6) continuing advancements in technology
change the ways all people live and work.
The internet is becoming a common learning tool in many classrooms. This
means provide a meaningful learning experience for all students. Teachers today have many opportunities to use
technology increasing the ways students learn. The
Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing
before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the
stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at
once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information
dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between
individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location. The
Internet represents one of the most successful examples of the benefits of
sustained investment and commitment to research and development of information
infrastructure
Ellore,
Niranjan & Brown (2014: 164) The use
of the Internet
has become a
central part of
the developed and developing societies
around the world, Internet has
become an integral
part of almost
every college student, while a
large fraction of college students think that the Internet is extremely
beneficial to their education, specifically conducting research and
communicating with their peers and faculty.
The problem is
considered to be
the external aspect
which is the media
and materials that using by the
students in learning english. The problem is closely related with the students, how the students can be a
resource for the learning. In
fact, the students use internet
in learning english as media and materials but the using of internet must be
control by the teacher and is the using of internet give a negative or positve
effect to the students?. Based on the students to determine what is important
in what they are learning and
to put internet as medium in facilitating in
teaching process. It can
be effective because
the internet gives a effect in
the teaching learning process. Considering the reason above, the researcher
choose the title “THE EFFECT IN USING INTERNET AS
A MEDIUM IN
LEARNING VOCABULARY
AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMA”
B.
Research
Problem
According
to the background above, the researcher formulates the research question as
follow
1. What is the effect of using internet in learning vocabulary at the second grade of SMA ?
2. What extent of the effect of using internet in learning vocabulary at the second grade of SMA ?
C. Objective
of the Research
In
the research problem above the researcher get a purposes as a Reasearch
objective in this study as follows:
1. To find out the effect of using internet in learning vocabulary at the second grade of SMA
2. To explained the extent of using internet in learning vocabulary at the second grade of SMA
D. Significance
of the Research
The
result of the research is expected to give some contributions for students, teachers,
and future researches.
For
the students, the finding of the research can be used as a new reference to
learn English, especially in
using media in teaching. They can know the effect of using internet in teaching and learning
process
Meanwhile, for
English teachers, the
findings are expected
to be useful contribution that
can be transferred
to learners based
on their characteristics. By considering each student may employ
different materials,
the teacher can take internet
in teaching to their students.
Final, for
future researchers, this
thesis will give
some contribution and information for
future researchers about internet
used by the second grade of SMA . The
result of the
research is expected to give some
contributions for students, teachers, and future researches.
E.
Scope of the Research
Many students have been familiar with Internet-based facilities
varying from facebook, e-book, to tablet books, following the application of
earlier Internet-based facilities such as email, websites, and web blogs. In
the study of the effect of internet in learning vocabulary the researcher
formulate the scope or limitation of this analysis is on the second grade of
SMA in the effect
of using internet to the students’ learning process especially in using websites in reading comprehension and vocabulary dealing with noun and verb.
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