THE EFFECT OF ARCS (ATTENTION, RELEVANCE,
CONFIDENCE AND SATISFACTION) MODEL IN TEACHING LISTENING
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
The Background of the
Study
Nowdays, writing plays an
important role in real life. There are several products of writing that human
being as social creature need as a media to share idea. Personal letter is one
of the example of writing product that can be used as media to interect,
sharing experiences and to communicate each other in written form personally.
According to Harmer (2001:79), states
that writing is a form of communication to deliver thought or to express
feeling through written form. There are some steps in writing process, there
are process of discovering and organizing the idea students are expected to
master four skill in English in order to
master writing and putting them into a paper, reshaping and revise the writing.
For this era, the students was
expected to master writing skill to be able used English communicatively even
written and spoken language.According to Richards (2000:67) writing form for
adults needs not only institutional writing but also personal one. The
important of writing can be seen from the fact that scientific books, novels,
letter, newspaper, brochures, commercial advertisements, report are products
writing. Most of the products are very important for human being in their daily
activities. Based on the fact, English learners especially at Senior high
school level must be master it besides speaking. As a basic skill in English
language, writing skill could not be spareted from educator sector. The main
reason, English learners at school must be able to express their ideas of
feeling in spoken or written forms effectively.Students should be able to use
English communicatively, even written and spoken.Writing skill is one of the
four language skills that students must learn,
this skill is not always easy to do.
In fact, the majority of
students usually refused to write. It was caused they did not know what to
wrote. The writing skill is considered to be the most difficult of the language
skill for Indonesia students. Based on
the researcher’s observation when?????
