INCREASING THE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL BY USING GUIDED READING METHOD
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Nowadays, English
language is very important to our lives. This language is use world- widely in
sciences, knowledge and technology, as well as education business, and other
activities in the world. In the past, the Indonesia students start learning
English at junior High Scholl (SMP) as a compulsory subject. The process
continues to Senior High Scholl (SMA). In fact, English is also taught in some
elementary schools as the local content lesson and even in some kindergartens.
In learning
language English there are four skills that should be master in learning; they
are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Those are very important for English learners. Reading
skill is one of the main points to master English because a lot of students
have opinion that reading an important target, with reading they can get
information and entertainment beside for their career and study target. So
that’s why I will focus on reading skill in my research. As support for
students in improving reading skill, student
have to be give knowledge about component of language, such as knowledge about
vocabulary, structure, pronunciation; sound for help their skill language. The
other it curriculum and system education also will assist teachers in improving
education by significant especially learning English language.
In improving
reading skill of students’, teachers have to use good strategy, precise method,
and resource of study, media on learning, assessment process and evaluation. To
know about it, hence previously researcher have to do observation, and after
researcher doing observation in SMP Negeri 3 Sungguminasa Class VIII hence
obtained result on learning English Language that is student not focus when learning process,
lees understand about information on material, students are behaving passive
when learning process, students almost boring on class, and students shy to
reading because they weren’t confidence with their selves, while problem faced
by teacher is how to make students focus during the learning and teaching
process.
According to
result of the first observations above, researcher decided to choose Guided
Reading method because Guided Reading assessment
can assist students and teacher on learning process. And Guided Reading also
can make students become active and independent learned because guided reading
method applied to make students pleased.
In this case
pleasing meaningless make the class room condition become boring, hilarious, or
make the students play in the class during learning process but pleasing in
here have mean as a procedure makes gladness joy with planning. This procedure
will make enthusiasm of student so they have spirit to involve problem during
the learning process. The other it based of writer Guided Reading has
many excellences for Students and teacher in learning and
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