CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Nowadays, science and
technology development demands people to increase their knowledge and
experience. One way to increase their knowledge and experience is through
reading. Reading is the effective way to get information. If someone says the
book is the window of the world, we can say that reading is the eye of the
world because we can know all the things through reading. Reading is one of the
basic skills of English, but it has a very complex process where the reader
tries to discover meaning in print page or script. Through reading one can
enhance his experiences,
develop
new concept and increase his thinking or knowledge.
Reading is one of the
basic communicative skills of English. It is an important part of English,
this is the way of gaining information
from written source. Harmer (1991: 68), states that reading is useful for other purpose; it provides good models for English writing and also provides
opportunities to study language. For the reasons it will be important to make
the reading activity as effective as possible.
Indonesian curriculum has put English as the essential subject
to learn from elementary until university, where reading is one of English
skills that the students must master. Besides that in the last examination test
of each school level almost 90% of test items are reading test form where the
students are asked to find out the information of text. So the teacher has
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