The Use of Animation Movies for Developing Students' Writing Skill of Narrative Texts

THE USE OF ANIMATION MOVIES FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS’

WRITING SKILL OF NARRATIVE TEXTS A CASE STUDY OF

TEACHING ENGLISH AT ELEVENTH

GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N

10 SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2006/2007

 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1  Background of the Study

     Besides our mother tongue, Indonesian and Javanese language, we also learn English as our second language. English is very important because nowadays English already be one of the most important languages, beside Mandarin .In other words by mastering English either actively or passively, we can grasp a half of this world, not only in business world but also in politics and also in education. Our government awares how important of English is, so they made English be one of the subject which is taught from playgroup until the university. In English there are four language skills, they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. 

       The students must master the four of language skills so they can use English actively and also passively. Writing  as a part of the language skills besides listening, speaking and reading, must be taught maximally by the teacher to the student. Writing is also one media of communication. According to Byrne (1980:24) writing is a primary means of recording speech, even though it must be acknowledged as a secondary medium of communication, so that the writer can conclude that writing is very important as one media of communication, that can help us to have a good socialization, can express our idea, feeling, and our opinion so that we can have a good interaction with our society. We can see the importance of writing in daily life and also in our social life, like in education and business aspect, for example when we write letter or application letter. Writing also gives some other benefits. Besides being means of communication, writing can also create jobs. In beginning writing, it is just an activity to express our idea, opinion, or feeling in the text. Writing can also be a hobby to spend our time, but finally in this modern life, people can get money from doing their writing, for example a journalist, novelist or scrip writer. Although, writing is very important for us, it is a difficult subject especially for the student. The reason is because writing is a mixture of our idea, vocabulary and also grammar, according to Heaton in his book”Writing English Language Test”(1975:138); Writing skill are more complex and difficult to teaching, requiring, and mastering not only of grammatical and rhetorical devices but also conceptual and judgment, because of the difficulties of writing, some efforts have been done to solve the problem . 

        The main objective is to make the writing become easier to learn for the students. From the Heaton’s opinion, the writer can conclude that writing is a very important subje ct because in writing we must share idea from our brain, it is not easy to translate concept in our brain to be a written language, and we must also be clever to choose and to combine  the vocabulary to create something that is meaningful .We also must pay attention to the grammar, so it is normal if the student think that writing is a difficult subject because they must pay attention to many things (idea, concept, vocabulary and grammar). Besides that reason, there is another factor that makes writing be the most difficult subject. The other reason is that there are a lot of many kinds of texts in English, such as narrative, descriptive, recount, spoof and many more. Each text has different characteristics. There are generic social function, structure and lexicogrammatical features. Usually the student can differentiate each text from another and they mix all kinds of texts. This will be a challenge for the teacher to find out how the student can distinguish each kind of text from another. To solve that problem, a teacher must find out how to make them be able to distinguish each kind of text from another, the teacher also must try to develop the ability of writing, grammar and structure of the student, and they also must find out an interesting method or visual aid to teach writing, so they will be interested in writing class. According to Kreidler (1965:1) he had an opinion that visual aid can be useful to the language teacher because;

a)  They create situations which are outside the class room wall,

b)  Introduce the students to unfamiliar cultural aspects,

c)  Give reality to what might be understood, verbally by the students,

d)  Change situations quickly and easily in a drill, provide

       decoration for the classroom. Basically the teacher can use all kinds of visual aids but they must pay attention to how the importance of the visual aid for the teaching learning process is, how the effectiveness of using the visual aids is, and many more questions, related to visual aids. Any kinds of visual aid that teacher uses must make the students comfortable with the material or the class so they can easily understand the lesson. Kreidler (1965; 41) also has another opinion, he said that: Using any kind of method has goals to give the students the opportunity to express their own idea, using the language pattern that they have learned. And that the students need this kind of opportunity in order to begin to use English in a way that enables them to express their ideas, interest, feeling and needs, clearly, correctly and confidently. Based on Kreidler opinion, the writer can conclude that visual aid has an important function that the teacher can use in teaching and learning process, visual aids can also give the students an opportunity to extend their ability and also to explore their talent.

         Since long time ago teacher already use any kinds of visual aid for example; in book, picture, song, real object, etc. In this final project the writer chose a film, Brother Bear in a writing class, the writer hopes that by using film the students will be more interested in learning writing in a class. The writer will explore a genre in writing, that is, narrative, because narrative is an interesting genre for students because they can share their idea, opinion and their own experience, like writing in a diary. According Charles et al (1985:129), he had an opinion:

          A narrative is a story, a narrative writing is writing that tells about a story. We use narrative writing when we tell a friend about something interesting that happened to you at work or in school, when you tell someone a joke, or if you write about the events of the day in the privacy of a diary or journal. A narrative text is very suitable for the students in writing class because they can easily express their own idea drawn from their own experience at school, house or anywhere, in their narrative writing. 1.2  Reasons for Choosing the Topic Some reasons why the writer chooses the titles “the use of animation movies for developing students’ writing skill of narrative text, a case study of teaching English at eleventh grade students of SMA N10 Semarang are: a)  A narrative text is the most interesting of writing genre for students of Senior High School because it tells about something imaginative so it will be quite relevant to their world and make them produce a text. b)  As a student of the education program of the English Department the writer has a great interest in this problem. The writer would like to find out more about the problems in teaching writing especially to students in Senior High School. The writer uses Brother Bear film because this film has strong characters that are very interesting for the students, Brother Bear also has a lot of moral values that can give a lot of social education to the students, and Brother Bear also has a simple story.

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