Improving the Students’ Motivation in Speaking Through Peer Interview at The Second Year of SMK Negeri 3 Takalar

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.    Background

English language is one of international language, English also becomes a language of science and technology. So that English has the important role in the developing the people’s skill and knowledge especially in speaking. Byrne in Samad, (1989: 8) says that oral communication is a process between speaker and listener, involving the productive skill of speaking and the receptil skill of understanding both the speaker and listener have positive function to perform; the speaker has to encode the message to be conveyed an approppriate language while the listener (no less actually) has to decode (or interpret) the message. Some of them who wants to speak to others but they do not have self confidence in learning English, motivation has become the main determinant to reach the goal of learning because when the students motivation in learning process, they always effort themselves to reach the target of language.

The skill of speaking English, as knowledge by Chastain, (1976: 334) is considered to be most difficult. This has been proved by the low mastery of speaking of the students university as reported by

Samad,(1989). This evidence implicitly tells that the students of lower levels particularly those of junior schools have also low mastery of speaking. It is inevitable to say that the low mastery of speaking of the University of Students is the reflection of low prerequisite mastery when they were at either senior high school.

The skill of speaking is basic to all other skills as Alexander,(1972: viii) in Muh. Wahyudi,(2008) says that the written language is derived from the reading language, and the reading language is derived from the spoken one. So as stated by Wilkins, (1976: 60) the written language is the secondary to the spoken language. Therefore, in the early stage of language learning, the students should be encouraged to do more practice in speaking.

The writer assumes that most students of the second language learning particularly the beginners are no or little self – confidence especially when they practice speaking. Most of them are shy of making mistakes especially when they practice speaking with their teacher. When this occurs, they will always keep silent all time in the class; they will never practice speaking, and  of course, they never learn to speak. Their shyness is then said to make their attitude undeveloped, and make them lost of motivation as well as change their attitude from positive to negative. Especially in language teaching is not easy for the teacher to motivate the students to speak in the classroom. The teacher also should create a situation that give much time to students to speak in the classroom.

Realizing the importance of spoken language particularly the skill of speaking, the factor which is may influence the success of learning activities, and the responsibility of the teacher to improve the students’ ability to speak, the writer is then interested in finding one alternative technique in teaching speaking. This of course, not meant to find out the only one alternative of problem solving. The main purpose is the teacher gives a contribution in order to enrich themselves in teaching technique related to the improvement of the students’ motivation to speak. Through Peer Interview Technique, however, they are assumed to have self- confidence to practice speaking. Through this technique, as the students practice speaking with their peers, their shyness is expected to lessen. For this reason, the writer would like to see whether or not the peer interview technique has an influence or influences on the students’ habits of learning to speak English. 

Peer interview technique is aimed to makes the students active to speak, self – confidence to practice speaking therefore the teacher in speaking class environment expected design such as environment that makes the students active so that they assumed to be active to speak English in the class. And based on the diagnostic test  which was the researher taken at school of SMK Negeri 3 Takalar got the low motivation is expected, in fact the mean score is 52.57 and the target score is 63. The researcher apply a technique that can motivate the students to speak English. Entitle “ Improving the Students’ Motivation in Speaking Through Peer Interview at The Second Year of SMK Negeri 3 Takalar”

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THE DIFFICULTIES OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TRANSLATING IDIOMS ENGLISH-INDONESIA

A.      THE BACKGROUND OF THE RESEARCH

Today in the globalization era, science and technology in the world has grown rapidly in any area of life. Even, we can communicate with others in distance place easily and get nearly all sort of information from all over the world because of the sophisticated technology. To comprehend what has been communicated or informed, we should have good command of the language involved. However, every country all over the world has their own language and rules that differ from one to another. It occurs for all elements of languages: grammar, phonology and semantics. To overcome the problem arising from the various languages, translation has a very important role.

Translation will be very important thing to do if we get much information which is written in foreign language. Translation can open the information that early people knew nothing. Even, translation can omit the

partition between countries, and means of cooperation, understanding and peace in the world. In addition, in the modern century people  demand to be able to follow the development of the era.

Along with the growing need of the books from some fields such as science, technology, literature, etc, our country had  been flooded with foreign books, whether they are gifts, donations, or imported goods. Those books varied in language and form, range from popular knowledge text books to novels. There has been pro and contra about whether  Indonesian publishers need to translate  those books into our own language or let those books published in their original language and form. The pro-side claims that translation is indeed very important in helping the readers to understand the contents of the book since the text are presented in foreign language. On the other hand, the contra-side insists that translation can ruin the whole meaning and messages that the foreign authors try to convey in their writing.

Translating is not an easy task because each language has its own rules in phonetic, structure and words. In translating sometimes the translator finds some problems dealing with the equivalence that he/she could not find in the target language. One of translation problems is dealing with idiomatic expressions. Hornby (1995:589) asserts that “idiom is a phrase or sentence whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words and which must be learnt as a whole unit”. Idiomatic expressions are used in both oral and written language. In addition, they are used in informal situations such as in conversation with our friends. 

In learning English as a foreign language we have to master idiomatic expressions, because they are frequently used in both oral and written language. For instance, in written language we often find some idiomatic expressions in some literary works that we have read. Some authors often include some idiomatic expressions in her/his literary works to make her/his writing more communicative.

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The Writing Ability of the Second Grade Students of MTs?????

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background of the Study

In learning English, there are four skills we must study. They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The four skills mentioned are diveded into receptive and productive skills. Speaking and writing are productive skills, while listening and reading are receptive skills. Beside the four language skills above, reading is of great importance to student show mother tongue is not English, because they almost do not have oppurtunity to hear or to speak that language. Writing is a difficult thing for students if they are do not have basic knowledge, especially in writing the text.

The study of foreign language is parallel to children learning their first language. The study the language through four steps. The first is mastering listening skill. Children listen to every sound in the environment. The second is mastering speaking skill. In this step, they try to practice what they listen. The

third is mastering reading skill. Usually they start learning this language skill when the study in the kindergarten and elementary school. The fourth is mastering writing skill. Those are the four language skill which should be started by people when they study language.

Writing is one of the important skills in teaching English. It has occupied a place in most English language course. People need to learn writing in English, for occupational or academic purposes. To write well, we must have good capabilities in writing process and aspects of writing. The writer must be able to organize the idea, to construct the sentence, to use punctuation and spelling well.

Beside, they must be able to arrange their writing into cohesive and coherent paragraphs and texts. When the teachers teach English in the school, they will find many students who have good writing skills ability, many students who have middle ability and may be they will find many students who have low ability in writing skill. These phenomena depend on each student, and they are also influenced by student’s learning style.

Teaching methods are needed in teaching-learning process, especially in teaching writing. Method is treated at the level design in which the role of teachers, learners and instructional materials are specified. Considering the explanation above, English teachers must have responsibility as they are demanded to have teaching strategy in order to solve the problem faced by student in learning English. Teachers must be able to arrange their assignments effectively. They are demanded to motivate the student in order to learn English well.

Writing is language activity that needs much cognitive concentration. When writing, a writer is challenged to use just linguistics code without helping of other codes, take for instance, gestures. A writer has to arrange some ideas and transform them into his thinking carefully in writing codes on papers. In fact, writing is different from writing Indonesian. English as stated above is a foreign language for Indonesian student. English is a new language that they often have trouble when they learn it. One of the reasons is the characteristics of English itself. For example, tenses, regular and irregular verb are not found in Indonesia. On contrary, Indonesia is a language which the students have got earlier basically, we believe that student of SMP have enough knowledge of it and have known to use it well and correctly. So it is possible that Indonesian, though it is a school language for most of them, can regard as the student’s mother tongue. They use Indonesian more frequently with them friends and teachers. Moreover, Indonesian is very close to them, to their speaking or writing habits. This is one thing that invites problems when the student writes the sentences composition in English.

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