CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
of the Study
In learning English, there are four
skills we must study. They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The
four skills mentioned are divided into receptive and productive skills.
Speaking and writing are productive skills, while listening and reading are
receptive skills. Beside the four language skills above, reading is of great
importance to student show mother tongue is not English, because they almost do
not have opportunity to hear or to speak that language. Writing English is a
difficult thing for students if they are do not have basic knowledge,
especially in writing the text.
According to Torrance, Waes &
Galbrait (2007: 23) 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 related to the written language,
writing is a means of communicating ideas and information which are related to
the thinking process and expression of ideas in written form. It is important
for the students to express their ideas and opinions. Writing is a complex
activity. There are several process, mental and physical being carrier at the same
time. Writing is used by educated people to persuade and influence other
people. The objectives like those can be????
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