CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Teaching English is something that
is not easy to learn. English has different letters and their sounds. It also
has many rules in its grammar. English has four skills; listening, speaking,
reading and writing. Each skill has its own rules. That’s why, teaching English
is one of challenging jobs for the English teachers. In teaching English, a
teacher should note some cases. Not only how to teach the students but also how
to make them understand. He/she must
know the students’ age, their favorite things which are interesting for them,
etc. But in fact, there are many teachers who are just teaching without paying
attention to their students’ condition.
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 an author has to structure of organized
the ideas and information presented in the text and relate the ideas and
information from text to ideas information stored in his or her mind.
The
observation result when the researcher conducted teaching practice in VIII A
class of SMP Negeri 2 Camba, the students’ reading comprehension skill still
poor. All of the students can be read
but only a few of students can comprehend or can understand what they have read
especially English text. It because many factors such as the students consider
that English is a subject that very difficult, bored and scares 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 bored to study English. As value of observation in the class room
the students’ has score 5.59. This score is as a poor category. In this
research the aim is to solve this problem until????????????????????????/
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