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 SMAN 18 Makassar, 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 a
general concept.
Reading for general
comprehension is a skill that involves absorbing the content of the
text . As the reader , we are not looking for specific
points only, but rather than it, we need to began Based on
explanation above, the writer was interesting in
conducting entitle “Improving Reading Comprehension
through Discovery learning of the students
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