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INTRODUCTION
research, the significant of the research and the scope of the research.
A. Background
response to this matter, government enrolled the regulation No. 20 year 2003
curriculum for elementary level as one of local content subject from grade
four up to six. But the fact shows that many schools which start teaching
curriculum, it will give more opportunity not only for teacher but also for
also it gives effective environment to grow then the school is able to conduct
the lesson.
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in reality most students are not able to master English. This can be proven by
the average of students’ grades are categorized low. Besides that through the
writer’s experience when teaching in the classroom, she still finds that the
students are still incapable to use English well whether in oral or in written.
For instance, the students’ reading ability still become a problem, their
cannot understand what the speaker said; in writing they still have some
mistakes in using grammar and in organizing the idea. In speaking, they have
difficulty in pronouncing the words and they cannot express what they want to
utterance.
There are so many factors that can affect the low of level the students’
ability in English. Externally, the factors that can influence the English
Internally, the factors that can affect English ability are interest, attitude,
one of the factors that are regarded as factors that can cause the low level of
student ability.
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Callender said that many factors the obvious importance in determining the
motivation can make the students interest to the lesson. For students who
have a high motivation, they will have energy to learn. Therefore, the students
Someone act something because she/he has a drive to achieve the actor’s
goal.
delivers the reading material with the same textbook or they don’t used to
read English passage. Students also feel bored with the text when they find
many unfamiliar words, thus he/she can’t comprehend the text well. These
problems happen because either the words are too difficult, lack of
vocabulary mastery, or the reading materials which are not appropriate with
the students. Without appropriate reading texts that suit them and lack of
vocabulary mastery, students will spend more hours in the classroom with
poor achievement.
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materials are the center of instruction for the teachers and students in
who have their own right to select different materials which they consider
variety of learning materials, one of them is using authentic materials that are
related to the students’ real life. Some examples of authentic materials are
Authentic materials are those materials which are designed for native
speakers; they are real texts, and designed not for pedagogical purposes.
current and varied information that are happening and most of them are
the students since the language covers the four language skills (listening,
speaking, reading and writing). In addition, Melvin and Stout stated that
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“students who work with authentic materials have an interest in the language
that is based on what they know it can do for them. Students who were
previously unwilling to master the forms of the language come to realize the
questions as follow:
research are:
1. The student
2. The teacher:
3. Principal
English.