CHAPTER IINTRODUCTION1.1 Background

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Problem
English is an international language in the world. We can not deny the importance of English language in this modern world. This language helps us to express thinking and feelings, to talk, to exchange views, and to contract between person wherever we live. Furthermore, in the world that English is considered as the main language, English is now taking an importance part in the chance to take a job. Hence, we can predict that English language will continue to develop and bring us more advantages and the near future.
In Indonesia, English is learned since junior high school until University. In the school English is an important subject that must be teaching by the teacher. As long as we know the English subject is an compulsory subject. It’s include to final examination in the Junior High School and Senior High School.
In the English as subject school, English has four basic skills. The four basic skills are : writing, reading, listening and writing. The four basic skills have different purposes. The basic skills that use by the students and study in their school is writing. Writing is important skill that must be learned by the students’. Not only writing text in their school. They can use in daily life context such as: writing diary, writing lyric of song, writing name of place and writing our ideas. In the process of teaching and learning English, writing ability is the most difficult and complicated language skill to be learned almost by the students in every level of education.
There are some problems that the students found when they wrote the text. First, the students are lack of vocabulary. Vocabulary is very important thing that must be the students mastered to write a text. If they have and know many vocabulary in their memory, they never feel confused when they want to write something. Second, the students are lack of grammar. Grammar is important to the students to make the reader knows what the idea on the text. Actually, writing needs well knowledge and hard thinking when the students produce words, sentences, paragraph at the same time with good English grammatical. Some mistakes are made when the students do not understand well about the English grammar. Many of the students commonly make grammar mistakes in their learning activity especially in writing. But, sometimes the teacher did not aware about students' mistakes. Then the students made their mistakes repeatedly because they do not have the correction and it was what we have called as error.
Errors in foreign language teaching especially in English are the cases which are difficult enough to avoid. Many aspects that can cause the learners of English as a foreign language make errors and sometimes mother tongue interference also became one of the caused. Errors in language learning are natural. Therefore, when the teachers teach in the school, they will find many phenomena; they will find many students who have good writing in English and may be they will find many students who have low ability in writing English.
According to the curriculum of based competences in SMA PERTI Padang, Writing in the First Year students taught into five kinds of texts are: Recount, Narrative, Procedure, Descriptive, and News Item. Here the writer only used writing Recount text to be analyzed. Recount text is one of kind English text that the students learn in their school. Recount text is about someone's experience story. It’s also has some determinate to learn and write recount text. The teacher has to know about recount text before, such as the purposes of recount text, generic structure and language features to make the students written is a good text.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher is interested to analyze the students' errors in writing of recount text, especially in grammatical errors. The reason of writer choose that recount text because they had study in first year in senior high school PERTI Padang.

Hasil (Bahasa Indonesia) 1:

BAB SAYAPENGENALAN1.1 latar belakang masalahBahasa Inggris adalah bahasa antarbangsa di dunia. Kita tidak dapat menyangkal pentingnya bahasa Inggris dalam dunia modern ini. Bahasa ini membantu kita untuk mengungkapkan pemikiran dan perasaan, untuk berbicara, untuk bertukar pandangan dan kontrak antara orang di mana pun kita hidup. Selain itu, di dunia Inggris dianggap sebagai bahasa utama, Inggris sekarang mengambil peran penting dalam kesempatan untuk mengambil pekerjaan. Oleh karena itu, kita bisa meramal bahwa bahasa Inggris akan terus mengembangkan dan membawa kita lebih banyak keuntungan dan masa depan.Di Indonesia, bahasa Inggris belajar sejak SMP sampai Universitas. Di sekolah bahasa Inggris adalah subjek yang penting yang harus mengajar oleh guru. Selama kita tahu Inggris subjek adalah subjek yang wajib. Hal ini mencakup untuk ujian akhir di SMP dan SMA.Dalam bahasa Inggris sebagai mata pelajaran sekolah, bahasa Inggris memiliki empat keterampilan dasar. Keterampilan dasar empat adalah: menulis, membaca, mendengarkan dan menulis. Empat keterampilan dasar memiliki tujuan yang berbeda. Keterampilan dasar yang digunakan oleh siswa dan belajar di sekolah mereka menulis. Menulis adalah keterampilan penting yang harus dipelajari oleh para siswa. Tidak hanya menulis teks di sekolah mereka. Mereka dapat menggunakan dalam konteks kehidupan sehari-hari seperti: menulis buku harian, menulis lirik lagu, menulis nama tempat dan menulis ide-ide kami. Dalam proses belajar mengajar bahasa Inggris, kemampuan menulis adalah keterampilan bahasa paling sulit dan rumit untuk hampir dipelajari oleh para siswa di setiap tingkat pendidikan. There are some problems that the students found when they wrote the text. First, the students are lack of vocabulary. Vocabulary is very important thing that must be the students mastered to write a text. If they have and know many vocabulary in their memory, they never feel confused when they want to write something. Second, the students are lack of grammar. Grammar is important to the students to make the reader knows what the idea on the text. Actually, writing needs well knowledge and hard thinking when the students produce words, sentences, paragraph at the same time with good English grammatical. Some mistakes are made when the students do not understand well about the English grammar. Many of the students commonly make grammar mistakes in their learning activity especially in writing. But, sometimes the teacher did not aware about students' mistakes. Then the students made their mistakes repeatedly because they do not have the correction and it was what we have called as error.Errors in foreign language teaching especially in English are the cases which are difficult enough to avoid. Many aspects that can cause the learners of English as a foreign language make errors and sometimes mother tongue interference also became one of the caused. Errors in language learning are natural. Therefore, when the teachers teach in the school, they will find many phenomena; they will find many students who have good writing in English and may be they will find many students who have low ability in writing English.According to the curriculum of based competences in SMA PERTI Padang, Writing in the First Year students taught into five kinds of texts are: Recount, Narrative, Procedure, Descriptive, and News Item. Here the writer only used writing Recount text to be analyzed. Recount text is one of kind English text that the students learn in their school. Recount text is about someone's experience story. It’s also has some determinate to learn and write recount text. The teacher has to know about recount text before, such as the purposes of recount text, generic structure and language features to make the students written is a good text. Based on the explanation above, the researcher is interested to analyze the students' errors in writing of recount text, especially in grammatical errors. The reason of writer choose that recount text because they had study in first year in senior high school PERTI Padang.