CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Now days, 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 one of the effective ways to gain information. If people
say a book is the window of the world, we can say that reading is the eye of
the world, because we can identify 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 as one of the basic
communicative skills’ of English, reading is an important part of English, as
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 compulsory subject to learn from elementary until university, where
reading is one of English skills that the students must master. Besides that,
in the final examination test of each school level almost 90% are reading test
form where the students are asked to find out the information of text
(Depdiknas, 2009). So the teacher has to pay attention for this case or for
reading subject even most of the students considered that reading is difficult
subject.
Most of reading methods and
strategies has been used in the classroom alternately. The result shows that
some the students’ English reading achievement is still far from satisfaction.
Hafsah (2005:35) assumes that the students find difficulties in reading such as
they do not understand the content of the material, what the text about and
also hard to find main idea of paragraph. So the question now is how to make
the students are interested in learning reading or we can say what should be
teacher done to increase the students ability in reading especially in
identifying information of the text.
According to the researcher
experience, the problem that faced by the students especially at SMA Negeri 1
Bantimurung is they find difficulties in identifying information of reading
text. The researcher considers that????????????????
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