CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
The goals of teaching English
in Indonesia are mainly to enable the students to use English for communication
and to read books and references written in English. The students are expected
to have skills of the English language such as reading, writing, listening,
speaking, and other elements of language that must be taught to the students
through the chosen themes.
Among the four skills above,
reading get greater attention than three others, because reading is one of the
important skills. Reading can be defined as an active cognitive process
of interacting with the print and monitoring comprehension to establish
meaning and through reading we can get much knowledge, study new words, comprehend ideas, study the word are used, how to
implement the grammatical rules, and gain the information.
Problem mostly occurs to the
students when reading book. Sometimes students are 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 feel sleepy.
As the explanation above, the
data from observation indicates that the students of MTs. Muhammadiyah Tallo
Makassar and also face the same problems. Most of them are not competent to
comprehend English text well. Many students can read the word in passage
perfectly but are unable to answer the questions. They can say the words, but
unable to gain the meaning from words. They find hard to comprehend reading
materials. The writer also observed that the teacher only asked the students to
read, and then they must answer the question without giving explanation about
the text first. So the students who did not understand what they read. As a
result, they could not answer the whole questions correctly. Based on the
result of students’ achievement in reading are still underneath, it is about
5.5 mean score and the target score is 7.00. In this case, the students
have to read critically, and the teacher must select the suitable technique or
strategy to teach it.
What a teacher has to consider
as a prime important task is 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 experts dealing with reading comprehension. One of the
techniques to be offered here is Sustained Silent Reading. In which the
students are learning how to interact with the text they read.
By using SSR method, the
students read silently for a given period of time. But, it does not mean they
read without sound. A reader may sound in respond words. SSR does not need to
say out each word. A reader is silent reading only says the word in mind, those
any references to pronunciation stress or intonation. In addition, they can
choose books, magazines, etc, that they are interested in, and??????????????
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