CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
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 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 been putting
English as the essential subject to learn from elementary until university,
where reading is the one of English skills that the students must be mastered.
Besides that in the last examination test of each school level almost 90% are
reading test form where the students are asked to find out the information of
text. 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 of 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 interested in learning reading or we can say what the teacher should
do to increase the students’ ability in reading especially in identifying
information of the text.
Concerning with the problem had by the
students above. The writer will try to apply directed reading activity (DRA) in
teaching an English reading material in this research. Betts in Jennifer,
(2006) Directed reading activity is a?????????????????????
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