CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
English
is dominant foreign language and functions as an international language. In
Indonesia, the use of English as the printing media has been familiar for
decades. The local and international public of tempo magazine and the Jakarta
post and some other English magazines provide evidence for such situation. The use of English
as a tool to deliver materials in those media indicates that English is
widely used in indonesia.Viewing this condition, english this adopted in the
curriculum by which big proportion of school hours given to the teaching and
learning such this language has been
regarded to anable students to have competence
in skill of English including reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
English
as a subject matter in school covers four basic language skills. They are
reading, writing, speaking and listening. In every subject, students learning
activities involve reading. Reading is one of the complex ways in learning
English. It is a kind of activity to comprehend the writers ideas or the way
the writer communicates with the
readers by way of the written or printed words (2009, www.if.ia.org.). Reading
is very important for everybody in order to cope with new knowledge,
experience, and to develop new concept and broaden hid horizon of thinking,
which are needed to ensure the containing personal growth and adapt the change
the world. As Brewton (1962:1) in Indo Tallo (2002:2) stated that much of what
you now today you have learned through your reading and much of what you will need to find out in the future
you will search for in books, magazines,
and newspaper. In connection with that, Harvey(1990) in Indo Tallo (2002:2)
stated that the purpose of reading is to inform ourselves about something we
are interesting in or challenge our knowledge on certain matters in other words
to extends our experience of the world in which we live. In order to acquire
these purpose successfully, it is expected to apply learning strategies. One
into account is using techniques in teaching reading.
Teaching a
foreign language especially English is not as easy as teaching the first
language, because it is something new for the students of Junior High School.
The students will certainly face many problems. Up to this time, we often hear
the disappointment of English teachers because of low scores of their students
in the final exam Bustami Subhan(1990) in
Anteng ria(2007). Considering the importance of reading skill, the
teacher should improve the teaching of reading comprehension. The teacher can
use some methods of teaching reading so that the students can enjoy and be?????????????
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