TEACHING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE USING DIRECT METHOD AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 KARAWANG BARAT

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Submitted to the English Education Study Program Language and Arts Department Siliwangi Bandung as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Educational Scholar Degree

BY: ABDUL AZIS 11220302

ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM LANGUAGE AND ARTS DEPARTMENT SEKOLAH TINGGI KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN (STKIP) SILIWANGI BANDUNG 2011

A. Background of the Study Language is a coding system and a means by which information may be transmitted or shared between two or more communicators for purposes of command and instruction. Language is one important aspect of peoples communication. People need language to communicate to others. People do communication with the others in order to express their ideas, share their feeling, inform message etcetera. Communication is the activity or process of expressing ideas and feeling or giving people information. Communication can be expressed by many purposes. One of them is conversation to communicate with our friends or the others people. In conversation we usually use many term who commonly say. People make communication with different dialect, language and way. Language and human beings are two unseparated components. Human life perfectly runs well because they use language to communicate with one another. In this world there are many languages. Every country has different language. English is one of the most important languages in the world. It can even be said o be the single most important language. English is one of the languages used in a variety of business, politics, science, medicine, education, and other fields of life. We know if English is an international language which many people in many countries use it to communicate with the each other people. And for this reason, English is the foreign language which is taught in many countries all over the world and becomes their international language. Yes, other languages are important too, but not for the same reasons as English are important. English is important because it is, maybe, the only language that truly links the whole world together. If not for English, the whole

world may not be as united as it is today. The other languages may be important for their local values and culture. English can be used as a language in any part of the world. This is because at least a few people in each locality would know the language. Though these people might not have the same accent as others, the language at least will be understandable. The future of English as a language is very secure. In this era of consolidation and trying to unify various aspects of life, it will not be long before English can be made as a single language of the world like the single currency and the union of various nations. In English, we know about the grammar. Grammar is the rule in a language for changing the form of words and joining them into sentences. Thats why; Indonesian students have to use English as compulsory subject that is taught at the school, an institute, the college and the university. It is a foreign language for Indonesian students that must be mastered. The teaching of English is different with the teaching of Indonesian. It is because students to some extent have special concept of their native language that is different from the English. In facts, many students in Indonesia may use English only passively but it is not orally. Recently, in this year our government has a plan to use English in daily learning process (except Indonesian language) and teach some senior high school in west of java or other region in Indonesia. The latest the government also has given the lesson of English at the elementary school. From that, we know if our government knows how important the English languages for the students to face up the globalization era, our government will improve English skill to the students. Children who are studying their mother tongue have not barriers. Their mind is empty of formulation of any

languages. But for students who are studying a foreign language, their minds are full of other language, the concept of which does not appear to be adequate for this new language. In learning the student must be gradually or step by step to mastered in English. They must study about phrase, clause and sentence. Phrase is a group of words without a finite verb, especially one that forms part of a sentence. Clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb, and forms a sentence or a part of sentence. Than sentence is a set of words expressing a statement, a question or an order, usually containing a subject and a verb. The beginning learner or the student can make error to choose the right word to create good sentence. They have to learn, for all of the errors of the languages. Because the source language (SL) and target language (TL) there are many difficulties in sound, writing system and structure in English language, they must learn to avoid many errors in language. Errors can happen in four basic language skills. They are listening, reading, speaking and writing. In the skill of language the students may make error in listening, it relate to the sound. In the reading the students usually make error in vocabulary. In speaking skill, the students usually make error in pronunciation. In writing skill, the students usually make error when the students make new sentence. In order to have good writing skills, there are many English grammar that must be mastered by the students. One of them is tense. Good English sentence dealings with good tense knowledge. As stated in Oxford Learners Pocket Dictionary, tense means verb forms that shows the time of the action (the present/past/future). From the definition above, it can be concluded that mastering

tense is really important because it deals with the time people talk in English, the time can be past, present, or even future. There are many tenses knowledge in English grammar. Totally there are 16 tenses. The writer would like to take simple present tense as one of the most used tense. Here, the writer is interested in observing the way students learn English grammar, especially in simple present tense. The problems are faced by students in learning tense, and also the problems that the teacher faces in their teaching. It is why the writer intends to write briefly about simple present tense. Therefore, this research entitled: TEACHING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE USING DIRECT METHOD AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 KARAWANG BARAT.

B. Problem Statement To analyze the topic, the writer presents two problems. Those problems are as follows: 1. What are the problems on the use of simple present tense faced by the first year students of SMPN 2 Karawang? 2. Is teaching simple present tense through direct method effective to overcome the students problems in writing?

C. The Reason for Choosing the Topic Teaching English is not easy, especially in writing. But, to have good English skill, the students must be able to master four basic language skill. One of the is writing. The appropriate method in teaching simple present tense to the students is

really important. So that, the writer takes TEACHING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE USING DIRECH METHOD AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 KARAWANG BARAT.

D. Limitation of the Topic There are four basic languange which must be studied by the first grade students at SMPN 2 Karawang Barat consisting listening, speaking, reading, and writing. There are many grammars in English such as tenses, gerund, pronouns, etc. In order to avoid a complicated discussion, the paper writer thinks that it is necessary to limit the discussion. In his paper proposal, the writer focuses on simple present tense, so that the analysis can be more specific and clear.

E. Research Objectives and Benefits 1. Objectives In this research the writer have some reasons, they are: a) To find out the problems on the use of simple present tense faced by the first year students of SMPN 2 Karawang Barat. b) To find out the effectiveness of teaching simple present tense through direct method to overcome the students problems in writing.

2. Benefits The result of the research is expected to give theoretical and practical benefits: a) Theoretical Benefit 1) The findings of this study are expected to improve the students ability using simple present tense correctly in writing. 2) The findings of this study are expected to help English teachers to improve their teaching skills using the right method. 3) To give contribution to the development of literary studies in STKIP Siliwangi especially for English Education Program.

b) Practical Benefit The writer hopes that the result of the experiment will be useful for teachers and readers who are teaching English to the secondary students.

F. Hypothesis The writer formulates his hypothesis as follows : The approach of this teaching preposition cant improve students writing ability.

G. Research Method and Technique of Collecting Data On the research the writer will use the quantitative method. The writer tries to observe the process of teaching-learning activity at class seven of SMPN 2 Karawang Barat. Because this is related to an experiment, so the writer uses preexperimental design of one group pre-test and test as technique of collecting the data.

H. Population and Sample of The Research The research took place at SMPN 2 Karawang Barat. The population was the first grade students. The writer took the junior high students academic year 2011/2012 as the sample.

I. Organization of the Paper The paper writer presents the organization of the paper to make the readers easily find the content of the whole paper. This paper consists of five chapters: Introduction, Theoretical Background, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, and Conclusion and Suggestion. Chapter I: Introduction The first chapter consists of background, problem statement, the reason for choosing the topic, limitation of the topic, research objectives and benefits, hypothesis, research method and technique of collecting data, population and sample, and organization of the paper. Chapter II: Theoretical Foundation The second chapter is underlying the explanation what simple present is and theories to support the research. Chapter III: Research Methodology The third chapter deals with research method, population and sample, instruments of the research, procedures of data collecting, and technique of data analysis. Chapter IV: Data Analysis The fourth chapter consists of description of data and interprentation.

Chapter V: Conclusion and Suggestion In the fifth chapter the writer concludes the findings and gave some suggestions for further study.