CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Reading is one of English skill to be
mastered listening, speaking and writing. The purposes of reading such as to
gain information, the learn subject matter, for enjoyment, academic purpose and
prepare test purpose. To achieve those skills, the students find difficulties
in get the message that extended by the writer and summarize the content of the
reading text.
The first
problem is the students found difficult to understand the content of the text.
In comprehend the reading of the text, the students have to able established
the main idea and detail information. The main idea is the most general ideas
in the paragraph while detail information is supporting of the ideas in the paragraph. When the students gain know about them, they have to understand how
a text organized because to comprehend the written words the students must able
to understand what the writer has to structure of organized the ideas and
information presented in the text and relate the ideas and information
presented in the text, and relate the ideas and information from text to ideas
information stored in his or her mind.
The second
problem is how the students can make a summary about the content of the text.
In understand of the text, summary is one of the fast way in get the writers’
idea. All of theinformation
in the summary will be contained in the reading text, although the words used
will be different. Through summary, the students will get a good understanding of the
overall meaning and main points of the section summarized.
Base on the observation which has been
done in SMPN 2 Bua Ponrang Kabupate Luwu, especially for class VIII A. The
researcher gave diagnostic and found the result is very poor in reading
comprehension. According to the result of test, there are 30 students in the
class, 9 students get the score 6.0 – 7.5 and 21 students get the score <
60. The research wants to changed of score based on the KKM is 65, and the
target of the researcher is score 75.
The researcher conclude that in class
VIII A is has problem in reading comprehension. In solved that problem, the
research tries to use strategy in teaching reading material to comprehend the
text. According to Michael Pressley in B. Fatmawati (2011:1) strategy is
something using by the students to analyze the learning problem. So that,
Strategies is very important in gets success of learning process in the
classroom.
In this case, the research will use of
explicit teaching strategy. The Explicit teaching is one of strategy can be
used by the teacher in the classroom where it makes the students to active in
learning process because the teacher knows what the students needed . According
to Cristine Edwards, Groves (1998) explicit teaching is calls for teacher
knowing how the social dimension of classroom life (through the context of
classroom interaction). This strategy is using to gets skill because it is talk
about classroom lesson specially in reading comprehension. Ludwig, Gunn
in Cristine (1995) said that the
effective classroom interaction leads and successful learning when it is
explicit and
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