CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language is a
tool and a process communication, English language is a unifier language or
international language and become a main component in teaching. “The goals of
teaching English in Indonesia are mainly to enable the students to use English
for communication and to read English books. It is a foreign language that has
a place for developing knowledge, technology, culture, and art to make a good
relationship with other countries”, Faye in Asrawati(2009).
There four skills
are in learning language, namely speaking, listening, writing and reading. All
of these four skills are important, but we can say that reading is very
important in teaching and learning process, because the ability of the student
to comprehend the subjects relatively determined by their reading skill.
Through reading, the students can get new information, exchange their
experience and horizon of thinking, and improve their knowledge in many fields
of science. Purpose of reading in any language is to inform ourselves about
something we are interested in our challenge our knowledge on certain master.
In other words, it will extend our experience of the world.
Reading
is important in our life. Trough reading we can enhance our experience, develop
new concept, solve our problem, and to see the changes in the world. Yet the
importance of reading has not been realized by most people in our society. A
large number of our society is classified as poor reader and majority of them
read poor quality of material. Reading
is all about information. It’s not about the number of words you read, but the
amount of value you extract from them. The key to improved reading
comprehension isn’t moving your eyes across a page more quickly.
In
Indonesia National Curriculum English is one of the compulsory subjects from
elementary to university. Reading
is one of the English skills that must be mastery by the students. They have to
read their hand books or other materials written in English related to their
lesson. However, most students considered reading as one of the most difficult
subject. The students can be successful in studying English if they are able to
read well because they can get information from their reading material if they
are able to derive meaning from what is read.
The
fact from other research that the students English Reading Comprehension
especially in senior high school is still far from satisfaction. 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. Afterwards, it
can also be seen from the researcher’s experience when she the writer has been
done as a research at SMK AMI Veteran Makassar. This condition becomes reason
to make the teaching and learning process better in the classroom, and the
teacher must be more creative and select in applying method in teaching and
learning process.
The ultimate goals of reading are
that learners should be able to read general text with comprehension. Many
students need
effective strategies to understand what they read and to remember details of what
they've read. This method can also help
non-disabled students improve reading comprehension and retention. The
PQ4R method is a good study skill that can be adapted for students of
all ages. This method will improve the student's reading comprehension. It also
may improve recall of facts by as much as 70%. PQ4R is an acronym for Preview,
Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, and Review. (Logsdon,2010).
Therefore, this research is designed to improve the students' reading
comprehension through the use of PQ4R
method. In a PQ4R activity, students are assigned to
comprehend a text with the procedure of preview, question, read, reflect,
recite, and review.
Based
on the background above, the researcher would like to carry out a research
under the title “Improving the Students’
Reading Comprehension through the Use of PQ4R Method at first year SMK AMI Veteran Makassar”
B.
Problem
Statement
In relating the background above the resecher formulates
research question of follows:
1. How
does the use of PQ4R method improve the students’ reading
comprehension in terms
of finding the main ideas at the first year of
SMK AMI Veteran Makassar ?
2. How
does the use of PQ4R method improve the students’ reading comprehension in terms of finding the contents at
the first year of SMK AMI Veteran Makassar ?
C.
Objective
of The Study
The objective of the research are :
(1) To find out the students’
reading comprehension in terms of finding the main ideas through PQ4R method.
(2) To find out the students’ reading
comprehension in terms of finding the contents through PQ4R method.
D.
Significance
of The Study
The
result of this study is expected to be useful information to the students and
the teachers about positive effect of the PQ4R method. So they will know and
get in learning language not only from one method, but also from others as
basic in teaching process especially to improve the students’ reading
comprehension.
E.
Scope
of The Study
The
scope of the study is the writer would be focused to improve the students’
ability to find out the main ideas and comprehending the contents of reading
text at the first year of SMK AMI VETERAN MAKASSAR,
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