THE USE OF SHORT STORY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
We know that the English language as means of international communication and it becomes more important nowadays. Therefore the government of Indonesia places this language. In the curriculum not only the secondary schools, senior high school but also at in universities or institutes. English as a foreign language involve four skills in language learning, they are: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Beside the four language skills above , reading is importance to students whose mother tongue is not English because they almost do not opportunity to hear or to speak that language so in This research, the researcher will concern with reading skill
Pourkalhor & Kohan (2013: 1) Reading is not just a single skill but a combination of many skills and processes in which the readers interact with printed words and texts for content and pleasure. Through reading, one can teach writing, speaking, vocabulary items, grammar, spelling and other language aspects. There are some essential goals of reading such as enabling students to understand the world, growing their interests, and finding solutions to their own problems. The use of literature as a technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (i.e. vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) is very popular within the field of????
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