CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Reading is one of the important aspects that influence the students’ success in learning English because by reading students can increase their vocabulary and mainly goals of the teaching English in Indonesia to enable the students to use English for communication and to read English and references in English.
For the students who want to develop and extend their knowledge, Reading Comprehension skill is a fundamental skill in obtaining progress. The students can extend their knowledge by reading books. Through reading, the students can improve their knowledge in many fields and sciences.
Reading is an active process of identifying important ideas, comparing, evaluating, and applying them. ( Mc. Whorter, T. Kathleen : 1999 ) therefore, in reading paragraph, we have to try to comprehend the main idea of the reading material, without comprehending the paragraph; it will be difficult to understand what we have read or what the writer means or what reading material.
In teaching and learning English reading process, the comprehension toward the material is the main goals, but the fact show that the majority of the students encounter the problem in comprehending the English texts.
By looking at this fact, the English teachers are expected to always make some effort to help the students to improve their reading comprehension; teachers must give variation in teaching them in reading class. If the students are only taught to read and memorize the grammatical pattern, they will get bored, so variations are really needed to overcome boredom. Byne ( 1998 ; 130 – 132 ) states that students seem to learn better when they are engaged
In teaching reading the teachers find some problems. Edythia (1998) states that it is the fact that the students who study English may be fluent readers in their native language, but they cannot transfer the skills in reading English. When they read an English text, they tend to know or focus to the words rather than??????????????
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