Difficulties In Learning English

A. INTRODUCTION

1. Background of the Study

Human being uses language both in written and spoken forms to express their ideas. English has become an international language. Therefore English is very important to learn. There are four skills in English; speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Writing is one of the most important skills to the people, because people use it as written language to communicate with other people. According to Jeremy Harmer (2004:10) as societies grew larger each time, the people have to be able to write and read to get success. The use of tenses in writing is one of the problem of students’ problems in learning English. The degree of difficulty in learning is also determined by the degree difference between two languages, Indonesian and English. As cited by Henny (2007) from Ramelan (1985), the greater similarity between them, the less difficult it will be for the student in learn the foreign language. The students also get the difficulty to choose the words, or the other word they lack of vocabulary. They still use their mother language in their writing, without using tenses and also the correct vocabulary. They don’t know how to write correctly and also they don’t know the words in English. It makes students sometimes feel lazy to write in English.

Not only difficult to write the correct sentences, but also much of students have good vocabulary but they don’t know how to put it in a sentence. It might caused by several factors.