CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Problem
It is
known that English is an International language which has been received
by countries all over the world. The function of it as a means of
communication in meeting business or other activities among government
over the world. Beside that English is used at science of knowledge, new
invention in field of modern technology, pharmaceutical, medical, etc.
As
a developing country, Indonesia really needs English because Indonesia
government is trying to improve all aspects which are usually faced by
all countries. One of these aspects is education, which is essential. As
an English teacher to be the writer focuses her attention to the
teaching English as the language of the world.
In Indonesia, English
is learnt and taught to junior high school, Senior high school even at
university. English means that something important for the student to be
taught at school based on situation and condition of the object area.
But there are some problems that faced by the students. It is realized
that most students get bad mark. So, it proves that English is really
difficult for the students. There are four skills in learning English
they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking is very
important because speaking and human being cannot be separated from each
other. Speaking is used to express their ideas and to communicate to
people in civilized world. That is way speaking is important. But the
students of SMK or graduated of it still get hard to be a good speaker.
The problems are:
First, the students feel ashamed and afraid to
speak English, so they never practice and use target language and use
target language and they always use mother tongue in the classroom.
Second,
for the teacher, they did not use variety of teaching such as visual
aids. The teacher has to motivate the students to learn English in the
class, and create the method of teaching. So the students will feel
relaxed, and freely in using English in the classroom. The teacher must
make afford to understand the material well. In learning English, The
students are expected to reach four skills. Among those, speaking is the
most difficult to master.
Teaching speaking can be done through
dialogues, picture, games, etc. The teacher should choose a suitable
ways such as: using games. If the teacher uses it, the students the
students will have a lot of opportunity to practice pronunciation and
communication or in other words it means that the students will get
knowledge or input from games. Games which introduced to the students
are Domino Instruction, What do I need? Sweet Reason, Dream sequences.
1.2. Problem of the Study
After
analyzing what the writer discussed in the problems above, the
following step is to make of the study problems. The writer tries to
formulate what she wants, in order to achieve the target. Based on the
problem above can be formulated as follow:
1. Is there any
relationship between games activities and improving the speaking ability
to the second year of the students SMK Brawijaya?
2. How is reaction of students after given the material using games?
3. What kind of games activities should be used?
1.3. Purpose of the Research
Each research must have purpose, it depends on the topic, which carries out, consist of:
1.
The writer wants to describe and analyze whether games are suitable to
improve the speaking ability at the second year of the students at SMK
Brawijaya.
2. The writer wants to describe and analyze whether games can give students encourage to learn speaking.
1.4. Significance of the Study
The research is used for:
1.
The writer: to fulfill the participle program of the studying at IKIP
BUDI UTOMO MALANG, one of requirement of which is to write a script in
order to get Strata one Degree in English studies.
2. The students: this research can be used to increase the student English achievement.
3. The teacher: this research can be used as an item to enrich the inventory of English library.
1.5. Limitation of the Study
To
avoid misunderstanding to estimate what the writer has explained, the
writer will give object, ones will arrange the thesis organize each
problem more easily. The focuses more intensively on the problem that
have been planned in this in this research. The writer will discuss:
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