CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Language
is means of communication in school and everywhere we want to communicate with
other people. Learning a language needs an important skill that children must
learn it. If someone wants to learn a foreign language, he will face many kind of
learning problems. Indonesia students will find difficulties in learning process
because in many aspects the language in different from their own. So the
teacher has to know the student’s difficulties and the way to solve their problems
in learning.
In
this part the writer presents the background of the study, reason forchoosing
the title, limitation of the study, statement of the problem, objectiveof the
study, and significance of the study.
A. Background of The
Study
Learning
English is not odd for everyone in our country. People realizeto survive their
life, they need knowledge. The knowledgement that is neededis only from their
own country but also other countries. To make relationshipwith them, people
need English communication because English is as one ofthe international
language has an important role in internationalcommunication. People use
language as a means of communication. Throughlanguage, people can express our
thought and feeling. Heidegger 1977 read in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heideggeralso says: Language first gives to
every purposeful deliberation its ways.Without language, there would be lacking
to every doing every dimension inwhich it could never primarily the expression
of thinking, feeling, and willing.
Language
is the primal dimension within which man’s essence is first able tocorrespond
at all to being and its claim and, in corresponding, to being. The primal
corresponding, expressly carried out, is thinking. Language also has several
functions. As Finocchiaro (1974:5) read inhttp://egitim.cukurova.edu.tr/efdergi/download/36.pdf
states that that languagehas six functions they are personal, interpersonal,
directive, referential, met linguistic and imaginative. The function of
language which is related to thisstudy is personal; that to express one’s
emotions, need, thoughts, desires, attitudes, etc.
Based
on the explanation above people cannot imagine what will happen if there were
no language in the world. How can someone interact with others without language?
As Ramelan (1992:8) says “with language man can express his ideas and wishes to
other people such as when he needed their help so that close operation among
members of the group can carry out.” so it is important to learn language in
order to communicate successfully and effectively.
Learning
English is a window for our country progress because English as one of
international language has an important role in ?????????????????????????
