How to use personal online diary by wordpress to teach writing recount text for Senior High School?

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

A.    Background of the Problems

Writing is one of the skills in learning English. It is one of the important subjects that students should be learned. They are not only able to read the English books or speak English well, but also be able to write, the students can express an ideas or feeling in writing form, the students should be able to produce sentences and develop it into paragraph. The students should be pay attention to the dictions are used and should be able to arrange his or her ideas or feeling in a good arrangement. the others point the students should pay attention to the rhetorical structure of the text in writing.

Study about writing is one of important basic to learn English because in writing skill the teachers can know about their student’s skill. There are also many kinds of books write in English in which those are spread in different countries. Through writing, the teacher can analyze their ideas in written form. The teacher also able to analyze the student’s ability in grammar through writing activities.

Today, general asumtion of the student and teacher about writing is talk about pen and paper. Eventhough, writing is not about writing with pen on paper, but about how some one to express his idea sistematically. Paper and pen is one of media to express it.

            Based on writer’s observation at senior high school, the writer found some problems especially about student’s writing skill. The students are lazy to express their ideas or feeling. They do not know the distinguishing among the texts because they are lack of writing practice in daily activities. They are less motivation because the teacher do not use interest media and technique in teaching process.

The writer found in senior high school have internet access, Wifi and  computer labor. So, this equipment can be used by English teacher as media to teach English especially writing. The XI grade students of Senior High school have learn about make a blog in Technology Information subject. English teacher can ask the student to make written in recount text on the their blog.

Furthermore, the writer has a website for learning English, that is www.nowlearnenglish.org. Writer found that many searched from visitor is about ‘example of recount text’. This is mean that recount text still difficult thing for student to write. Internet can be a solution for student in searching a good examples of recount text.

Based on the curriculum of KTSP, the teaching writing is done through twelve genres. They are spoof, recount, report, analytical exposition, news item, anecdote, narrative, procedure, descriptive, hortatory exposition, explanation and discussion. All of the genres should be understood by the students. It is also hoped that the students are able to write the genres as their activities every day.

Based on writer’s experience, recount text assumed as a new text in Senior High School. It is difficult for students in writing. Writing recount text is un familiar for student also it is not similar writing the others text, they have different generic structure and language feature among them. Student do not have background knowledge about recount text. It make them confuse to finish recount text. Students still find difficulties to use the correct grammar and tense. Teacher also find difficulties to finding the media in technique to teach recount text. How to teach this subject that can not makes students are not boring and interesting to learn.

Based on the problem above, the teacher should be able to find new media or meaningful activities that can support in teaching process. To make students are not boring and interesting in writing, one alternative that could be used to overcome this problem is using picture sequence. The writer interested to using personal online diary by wordpress in writing recount text because it is always interesting for the students. By using personal online diary teaching recount text becomes more enjoyable and can improve student’s ability in writing.

B. Identification of the Problems

Based on the background of the problem above, the problem can be identified as follow: first, the students still have low motivation to learn English. Second, the media used by the teacher are uninteresting for students and it makes the students are boring in learning process. Third, the student have difficulty to distinguish among of genres, because they are lazy to practice every time.

Many media can used by teacher in teaching writing especially recount text like pictures sequence, photographs, daily activities and online diary or blog. Through blog teaching learning will be easy than before. As a teacher we need this media, because through media the process of teaching learning more active and the student will be creative.

C. Limitation of the Problems

There are many problems that have been identified. It is impossible for the writer to discuss on the whole problems. So in this paper the writer just focuses on using personal online diary by wordpress in teaching writing in recount text. The writer hopes that personal online diary will be a good dan interesting media in teaching writing especially recount text.

D. Formulation of the Problems

Based on the limitation of the problem above, the problem can be formulated as follow: How to use personal online diary by wordpress to teach writing recount text for Senior High School?

E. Purpose of the Problems

The purpose of the writing this paper is to teach writing and to contribution for the teacher especially English teacher in teaching writing recount text. They can use personal online diary as media to teach writing in recount text for Senior High School. So that, the students will enjoy in learning writing, especially recount text. Beside that, this paper is also purposed to fulfill one requirements to finish strata one (S.1) of English Department, Faculty Teacher Training and Pedagogy of Mahaputra Muhammad Yamin University.

F. Definition of the Key Terms

a.       Writing is one of the skill in language that sound be learned by the Senior High School students to express their idea, feeling, through into written form.

b.      Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to entertaining or informing the reader, activity or story in the past tense.

c.       Personal online diary or famous with blog is one of media that can be use in teaching writing in recount text for Senior High School