THE OVERVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language.
Language is very important to communicate in society. Language is made up of sounds, words and sentence. Brown states, “language is more than a system or communication. It involves whole person, culture, educational, developmental communicative process”. It means Language is measured as a mean of communication and it is difficult to do all activities without language.
Based on the abstract of language above we can see that someone needs in connecting communication each other, acquiring knowledge and skill, taking education and establishing relation with other people. In teaching learning process, the teacher of course uses language to communicate and to transfer the material to the students. The teaching learning processes are not going on without language. It shows that language will take the important role in communication and the important aspect of education in teaching and learning process in this era particularly English. In Indonesia, English language not used in daily by society but accuracy really focus in learning English. English just is taught in schools, but it does not play an essential role in social life.
Harmer says, “English as a foreign language is generally taken to apply the students who one studying general English at the schools and institutes in their own country or as transitory visitors in a target-language country”. It means that the purpose of teaching English as the first foreign language is to create a situation that the students can use English as a means of communication. The students should be put into situation that they can use English for communication both oral and written.
In teaching English as a foreign language, the teacher should have known what teacher should do. Brown state “teaching is facilitating learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning and showing or helping someone to