TEACHING WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT THROUGH DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of Study
People as a part of social life can not be separated from their community. Language has an essential role as a media for communication. Hornby defines language as the system of communication in speech and writing that is used by people of a particular country. Communication is understanding and expressing information, ideas, feeling, and improving knowledge, technology, and culture.
English as an international language enables people all around the world to cope each others and create harmonious life. In Indonesia, English is very important and get special attention to be learnt. English is taught not only for adult but also in formal school such as kindergarten, elementary
school, junior high school, senior high school and vocational school. The main aim of teaching English is to make it as an easy learn language and they can use it as well as Indonesian. Indonesian learners who want to be master of English should learn and comprehend all aspects. There are four major skills such as listening and speaking, reading and writing. Writing is one way to communicate in English by expressing the ideas through organizing our thought into good arrangement of written text. Olshtain stated that viewing writing as an act of communication suggests an interactive process which takes place between the writer and the reader via text.
According to the statement above, it is said that written text is able to present an act of communication which can be easily understood and involved the writer and the readers. Writing skill should be taught in order to produce a high quality written text which can convey the content through informal literacy such as short functional text, monologue, and essay in the form of procedure,
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