Improving the Students’ Reading
Comprehension of Narrative Text through Question Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy
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. 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.
Reading is one of
the main skills in English that plays important role. Reading can be defined as
an active cognitive process of interacting with the print and
monitoring comprehension to establish meaning and through reading we can get
much knowledge, study new words, comprehend ideas, study the word are used, how
to implement the grammatical rules, and gain the information.
Most of students
have many problems in reading book or passage. One of them is to find main idea
of the text they read. They can read the words well but they cannot get the
main idea. That is why sometimes they feel sleepy in class because they get no
any comprehension about the text they read. At the end, they cannot answer the
questions based on the text perfectly. This problem occurs because the teacher
only asks the students to read the text and answer all the questions without
giving any explanation that help the students in comprehending the text well.
It can be seen
from Hafsah (2005:35) who stated that the students find some difficulties to
comprehend such as they don`t understand the content of the material, what the
text about, and they hard to find main idea of every paragraph. And also from
the researcher`s experience after taught many students, found that those??????.”
