CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language
is a tool of communication. It is used to express ideas, feeling, suggestion,
creation, or emotion that will be much easier to express it in our mother
tongue (Riswandi 2011:1). Trouble comes when we are asked to express ourselves
in a foreign language. English as an international language has four mayor
skills that widely used and spoken all over the world. They are listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. In teaching English, the students are
encouraged to use English for communication and to read the books and
references written in English.
The purpose of
reading in many languages is to inform ourselves about something we are
interested, or to challenge certain our methods. In other words, to extend our
experience of the world in which we live.
A person may read to get information. He may also read for enjoyment, or
to enhance knowledge of the language being read (Janz: 2004). Although
every student knows how to read, many have never learned good reading skills.
(Royse, 2001: 127). The
purpose for reading is to guide the reader to select the appropriate texts, to
determine the appropriate to reading comprehension.
According to
researcher’s observation result from diagnostic test in VII.C class of SMPN 1 Mangarabombang
Takalar Regency, the students’ reading comprehension skill still poor
with mean score 5.5. All of the students
can be read but only a few of students can comprehend or can understand what
they have read especially English text. It because many factors such as the
students consider that English is a subject that very difficult,bored and
scares because meaning and letters are different.The other factor is the
teacher always uses the same method to teach English subject like the direct
method. It is also make the students more bore to study English. As value of observation in the class room the
students’ has score 6.0. This score is as a poor category. In this research the
aim is to solve this problem until the students have a good score, while the
standard curriculum is 6.5. The researcher wants to achieve the score at
7.5 target in learning reading comprehension.
The technique of teaching English is to develop especially to
improving reading comprehension, because the technique of teaching influences
the students’ success. So, the teacher of English should select the suitable
method or technique to teach and material to teach. There are
many approaches or techniques have been applied in the English curriculum. In
general the techniques in reading found at High School are comprehension
question answering exercises, therefore can improve the teaching of reading in
order that the students’ activity involves in reading class particularly in the
given tasks.
Davies (1984:2) confirms that success learning in
English requires knowledge of words. One who wants to do well in English must
learn the words to pay attention to new words. The students should recognize
and know the meaning of words or lexical as soon as they see them in reading
passage. The students tend to read word by word, stop, thinking, and look up
the dictionary and then move on the next sentences, by the time they reaches
the end of the sentences, they might lose sight of its meaning. They are not
aware that certain words may come from other words, through lexical
simplification process. The students can be easy of in order to make reading as
a fun activity, teacher should attempt to find any method. At this moment,
writer want to offer a method that is group work technique.
Based on the statement above, the writer would like to find
a good Method that can be used by the teacher to facilitate their teaching
activity in teaching English (especially in reading comprehension) and help the
students to have better understanding in learning Reading Comprehension. This
Method is OK5R (Overview, Key Idea, Read, Record, Recite, Review and Reflect).
B.
Problem
Statement
Related to the fact in
background presented above, here the writer will formulates problem statement
as follows:
1.
How does OK5R Method increase
the students’ Interpretative Comprehension at the eleventh year students of SMPN
1 Manngarabombang Takalar Regency?
2.
How does OK5R method increase
the Literal Comprehension at the first year students of SMPN 1 Mangarabombang
Takalar Regency?
C.
Objective
of Study
This research aims to find out;
1.
To find out
the use of OK5R (Overview, Key Idea, Read, Record, Recite, Review and
Reflect) Method in improving the Literal Reading Comprehension at the first
year students of SMPN 1 Mangarabombang Takalar Regency.
2.
To find out
the use of OK5R (Overview, Key Idea, Read, Record, Recite, Review and
Reflect) Method in improving the Interpretative Reading Comprehension at the
first year students of SMPN 1 Mangarabombang Takalar Regency.
D.
Significance
of Study
The result of this
research is expected to be an alternative contribution to increase reading
mastery and helpful information for teachers and the candidate of teachers of
English to improve their quality in teaching English specially the reading
teaching.
E.
Scope
of Study
This research
restricted to the use of OK5R method in seven steps (Overview, Key Idea, Read,
Record, Recite, Review and Reflect) in reading comprehension. This
method here is focused on literal comprehension and interpretative
comprehension.
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