CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background

Language as the tool of communication has an important role to reveal an

intention to someone else. People will be able to express their through and feeling

by using language. Language, communication and life cannot be separated.

Language can be applied in many aspects, such as education, society, politics,

economics and culture. One of the ways in communication is through speaking

(Nursyamsi 2006:1).

For Indonesia, english os a foreign language. Learning a foreign language is

an integrated process that the learner should study the four basic skills: listening,

speaking, reading and writing. We use it to understand our world through listening

and reading to communication our felling, need, and desires through speaking and

writing. By having more knowledge about language skill, we have much better

chance of undestanding and being understood and getiing what want and need

from these around us (Jamlan 2008:1).

Speaking is identified to be diffcult to learn, where as speaking is very

important in human life . By speaking, people can communication with other

someone usually face some troubles in social interaction like he or she cannot

produce his ideas, arguments and feeling communicatively. One sometimes can

understand what others say but he or she not able to communicate it. This may

happen because of low pratice, low motivation, less of communication

competence and also self confidence. Ideally, if one could understand an

expression, should be able to produce it.

Based on the preliminary observation in SMAN 8 Makassar, there are some

problems that english learning, such as they were lack of Vocabulary to learn

english, they were lack of Motivation in english learning, and they were not

Fluency in speak and also the students low self confidence in using english in

speaking class, and they are shy to speak english in front of their friends. Besides,

the teacher is not able realize the students problem in speaking and could not

create a good situation in teaching learning process in the classroom.

From the reason above, the researcher wants to improve students’ speaking

ability thorugh social media. The used of social media in the learning process

today is not just an option. However, the used of social media has become a

demand for all teachers to be able to used it as an effort to facilitate students in the

learning process (Lukman arif, 2016). It is undeniable today that the used of social

media is now very popularly used as an authentic medium in learning such as

examples of Twitter, Facebook ,Instagram and others.

In learning English, the used of social media is one of the efforts in making

the learning atmosphere to be effective and able to facilitate students in training in

speaking English. This is because having the ability to speak English is a demand

for everyone nowadays. In this globalization area, the necessity to communicate

actively and well becomes a necessity in order to compete and cooperate

internationally.
 In fact, although the used of social media as a medium to improve the ability

of English students is very popular done by teachers, students who are able to

speak English in school is still a minority. There are still obstacles in the learning

of speaking and the application of social mediaas a medium to improve students'

ability in speaking English. Learning from the experience of researchers as an

English teacher, it is very difficult to improve the ability of students to be able to

speak although the implementation of social mediais often to do in the learning

process.

Considering that social media should be applied as a learning medium now

and see there are still obstacles in the used of social media in the process learning

in improving students 'ability to speak in English.

In conclution, according to results of the study by kompas tekno from we

are social. Wednesday March, 1st2018, Youtube ranks first a percentage of 43%,

Facebook 41%, Whatsapp 40%, Instagram 38% and line 33%. Globally, the total

internet usedrs penetate the number of four billion usedrs. For social usedrs, up

13% with year-on-year usedrs reached 3.196 billion.

From the explanation above, the research on usedsocial media of Facebook

to improving students'speaking ability.Facebook is being considered as an

educational apparatus becaused of its beneficial qualities such as enabling peer

feedback, goodness of fit with social context, and interaction tools (Mason, 2006).

Through Facebook, students can express their thoughts, feelings and ideas more

freely and relax. It was become the good preparation for them to deliver their
ideas when they communicate one another. in the learning process so

that the used of social mediacan be more effective and maximal.