CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
We know that
the English language as means of
international communication and it becomes more
important nowadays. Therefore the
government of Indonesia places this language. In the curriculum not only the
secondary schools, senior high school but also at in universities or
institutes.
English as a foreign language
involve four skills in language learning, they are: reading, listening,
speaking, and writing. Beside the four
language skills above , reading is importance
to students whose mother tongue is not
English because they almost do
not opportunity to hear or to speak that language so in This research, the
researcher will concern
with reading skill. Richard
(1998:35)
Reading is a flexible
for the students, because they can get information from the text they have
read. Reading also is an active process
indentifying important ideas comparing.
Nuttal (1998:89) Reading skill
are the ability to analyze, evaluate and synthesize what one read. They are the
ability to see relationship of ideas and use them as an old reading
(Halvonson :1992:38) reading consist of some strategies to help the reader evaluate and understand the
content of the material.
Problem mostly
occurs to the students when reading book. Sometimes students were facing a book
but do not read at all. they just can mention symbol word without getting any
idea from the book. The researcher herself experienced when reading a book without any comprehension
tends to feels sleepy
As the
explanation above. The observation result when the researcher conducted
teaching practice in IPA of SMA, the student reading comprehension
skill still poor. Only a few of student can comprehend or can understand what
they have read especially English text. It because many factors such as the
student consider that English is a subject that very difficult, bored and scare
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 is the class room the student has score 5.5. This score is a poor
category. In this research the aim is to solve this problem until the student
have a good score. While the standard curriculum is 6.5 the researcher
wants to achieve the score
at 7.0 target in learning reading
comprehension.
What a teacher
has to consider as a prime important task how to design the reading course with
strategies and techniques to facilitate
the students to comprehend to concept from the author’s mind in the text. There
have been a lot of techniques and strategies
discussed by many expert dealing with reading comprehension. One of the
technique to be offered here is Discovery Learning Method in which students are learning how to
interact with the text they read. Mayer (2003: 186)
point out that
the Discovery learning
method is a
teaching technique that encourages
students to take more
active role in
their learning process
by answering a
series of questions
or solving problems
designed to introduce
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