The Effectiveness of Collaborative
Writing Method in Teaching Writing at SMA
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the writer
presents introductions that contains: background of the
study, problem of the study, objective of the study, significance
of the study, hypothesis of the
study, scope and limitation of the
study, and definition of key terms.
A. Background of the Study
Language as one of social aspects of human life is the most
important means of communication in any
society. Language is a human system of
communication ideas comprehensibly from one
person to another that uses arbitrary signals, such as
voice sounds, gestures, and written symbols in such a way that the
other will be able to act exactly
said by Richard Nordquist. It seems
imposible to communicate with others
without using language. While Halliday in Sandra J. Savignon
defines three basic functions of language that correspond to general
categories of needs met by language :
1. Language serves for the expression
of “content” : that is, of the speaker’s experience of the real world,
including the inner world of his own consciousness. We may call this the
ideational function.
2. Language serves to
establish and maintain social relations, which
may refer to as interpersonal functional.
3. Finally, language
has to provide for making links with
itself and with features of the situation in which it is used. We may
call this the ???????.
