CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Language
is a tool of communication to make human interaction. People communicate and
interact with others using language. In some community English has become an
international language. Most of the community in the whole world use English to
communicate with others who have different languages. Because of that English
is very important to be taught and learned by the students.
In Indonesia English learning is taught as one
of the compulsory subjects from elementary school for fifth and sixth level,
junior to senior high school up to the universities. In learning English there
are four skills namely: speaking, writing, listening and reading. In this sense
the writer especially discuss about reading because it can cover the three
other skills.Barbara Taylor (1986:3) states that reading is very closely allied to
other language processes such as listening, speaking and writing.
Reading skills should be thought earlier to
the children (Tessero: 2003). Reading habits can increase the students’
achievement. Most Indonesian learner are acknowledge that reading a low will
support them reaching their goals of studying, but categories low for years.
Many efforts have been performed to socialize reading as a burden for most
school ages. This phenomena effects them to be creative readers, that finally
will influence their comprehension towards their achievement is categories low.
The purpose of reading in many languages is to
inform ourselves about something we are interested, or to challenge certain our
methods. In other words, to extend our experience of the world in which we
live. A person may read to get
information. He may also read for enjoyment, or to enhance knowledge of the
language being read (Janz: 2004). Although every student knows how to read, many have never
learned good reading skills. (Royse, 2001: 127).
The purpose for reading is to guide the reader
to select the appropriate texts, to determine the appropriate to reading
comprehension.
The nature of reading is not merely read the
text trough line, a reader has to bring his mind into the text to comprehend
what is read. Cooper (1984:4) states that to comprehend the written words the
reader must able to: understand what??????????????
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