CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
English
is an international language. It has an important position in the world
communication today. This position makes English is most widely used all over
the world in all aspect of human lives. In Indonesia, English plays an
important role in the international communication and development of education.
Indonesia as a developing country gets to involve in many aspects of
international lives and it cannot be denied that the mastery of English is
necessary for Indonesian people. In Indonesia, English is a foreign language
which functions to support the development of knowledge, technology, culture
and art. It also improves a close relationship with the other countries.
The
main goal of teaching English in Indonesia is to enable students to use English
for communication and for reading book reference written in English. English
has been taught at the senior high school and event at the elementary school. At
the senior and junior high school, the four skills of language namely speaking,
writing, listening and reading has been taught. But in this sense the writer
will be focus to discuss about reading skill. Reading is the priority because
reading can cover the three other skills (Achsin, 1985).
Reading
is an active process of identifying important ideas, comparing and applying
them. Therefore in reading paragraph we have to try to comprehend the main idea
of the reading material. Without comprehending the paragraph, it will be very
difficult to understand what we have or what the writer means in the reading
material.
There
are some common problems that the teachers find with teaching reading such as
learners lack of motivation, teachers are uncertain as how they should carry
out the language preparation teachers are unsure about selecting and devising
reading related activities. This fact indicated that student’s motivation and
teacher’s preparation are very important to be considered.
Based
on the result interview of the English teacher at VIII of SMPN 2 Lembang said
that the mean score of the students’ achievement in reading English at 2012 - 2013 academic year especially
in reading is very low,
it is about 5.5 mean score and the target score is 7.5. In this case, the
students have to read critically, and the teacher must select the suitable
technique or strategy to teach it.
By
looking this fact, English teachers are expected to always think and variation of teaching
strategy in reading. In this case, the writer is going to discuss one variation
in teaching strategies namely Number
Head Together (NHT) Technique.
Numbered Heads Together (NHT) is another small group learning method using
student teams. NHT is similar to STAD
because heterogeneous groupings of students are used
(Bawn. S. 2007 : 43-44). Arrangement of four students per
learning team, with each team counting off from one to four is the beginning of
Numbered Heads Together. There is one
high achieving student, one low achieving student and two average achieving
students on a learning team.
B.
Problem
Statements
Based
on the background above, the question is formulated as follows:
1.
How is the
students’ proficiency in literal comprehension of the paragraph in the text
through Number Head Together (NHT) Method?
2.
How is the
students’ proficiency in summarizing the text
through Number Head Together (NHT) Technique?
C.
Objectives
of the Study
Based on the problem statement above, the objective of
the research are:
1.
To
find out how the improvement of the
students literal comprehension through Number
Head Together (NHT) Technique.
2.
To find
out how the improvement of the students interpretive comprehension through Number
Head Together (NHT) Technique.
D.
Significance
of the Study
The
significance of the research is expected to be useful information to the
English teacher, English students and those who concern about the language
learning process. It
is hoped that the learning strategy will be considered as a better strategy to
improve the students’ comprehension in reading.
E.
Scope
of the Study
This research will focus on the
study to improve the students’ reading comprehension through Number Head Together (NHT) Technique at
the eighth great of SMPN 2 Lembang. Literal
comprehension here covers main idea, sequence
details and interpretative comprehension in summarizing.
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