CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is an international tool of communication. It is
used to communicate with each other by people from different countries all over
the world. English plays an important role because it is a tool of
communication in all aspects in most of the part of the world, whether in
social in interaction, science technology, politics, economics, cultural, and
education.
It is intended to enable the students to communicate and
express their ideas in English and have a good command in reading comprehend
text book and information written in English for the shake of national
development in the field of education.
In learning English there are four skills that should be
mastered by the students, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
These skills always become the target of the final learning objectives. In
other words, the four language skills are the result of a long process of
learning; they are the application of the knowledge of language that the
learners get during process.
Reading is one important aspect in learning English. Reading
itself is complex and complicated process because it involves the internal and
external factors of students. The internal factors are everything from the
students which can be taught; as a result of an interaction in reading process
external factors are all the factors from outside of the students (Nunan, in
Ilvirah, 2010:2).
Mc Worther, in Ilvirah (2010:2) says that reading is an
active process of identifying important ideas, comparing, evaluating and
applying them; therefore in reading paragraph we have to try to comprehend.
Without comprehending the paragraph, it will be very difficult to understand
what we have read or what the writer means in reading material.
In relation to the condition of the teaching of English
reading comprehension faced by secondary school students. The students, who
come to English classes, should be given sufficient opportunities to use their
knowledge of language.
Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested to
observe the RAFT (Role Audience, Format, Topic) strategy in learning and
teaching, because it offers students a creative outlet for demonstrating
understanding (Santa, 1988:10) it is flexible..................................
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