IMPROVING
STUDENTS’ READING SKILL THROUGH GUIDED READING METHOD
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Nowadays,
English language is very important to our lives. This language is use world-
widely in sciences, knowledge and technology, as well as education business,
and other activities in the world. In the past, the Indonesia students start
learning English at junior High Scholl (SMP) as a compulsory subject. The
process continues to Senior High Scholl (SMA). In fact, English is also taught
in some elementary schools as the local content lesson and even in some
kindergartens.
In
learning language English there are four skills that should be master in
learning; they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Those are very important for English learners. Reading skill is one of the main
points to master English because a lot of students have opinion that reading an
important target, with reading they can get information and entertainment
beside for their career and study target. So that’s why I will focus on reading
skill in my research. As support for students in improving reading skill, student
have to be give knowledge about component of language, such as knowledge about
vocabulary, structure, pronunciation; sound for help their skill language. The
other it curriculum and system education also will assist teachers in improving
education by significant especially learning English language.
In
improving reading skill of students’, teachers have to use good strategy,
precise method, and resource of study, media on learning, assessment process
and evaluation. To know about it, hence previously researcher have to do
observation, and after researcher doing observation in SMP Negeri 3
Sungguminasa Class VIII hence obtained result on learning English Language that is student
not focus when learning process, lees understand about information on material,
students are behaving passive when learning process, students almost boring on
class, and students shy to reading because they weren’t confidence with their selves,
while problem faced by teacher is how to make students focus during the learning
and teaching process.
According
to result of the first observations above, researcher decided to choose Guided
Reading method because Guided Reading assessment
can assist students and teacher on learning process. And Guided Reading also can make students become active and independent
learned because guided reading method applied to make students pleased.
In
this case pleasing meaningless make the class room condition become boring,
hilarious, or make the students play in the class during learning process but
pleasing in here have mean as a procedure makes gladness joy with planning.
This procedure will make enthusiasm of student so they have spirit to involve
problem during the learning process. The
other it based of writer Guided Reading has many excellences for Students and
teacher in learning and ???????????????????????????????????
