IMPROVING
THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH LISTEN-READ-DISCUSS (LRD) STRATEGY
CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
In
learning English, there are four skills we must study. They are listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. The four skills mentioned are divided into
receptive and productive skills. Speaking and writing are productive skills,
while listening and reading are receptive skills. Beside the four language
skills above, reading is of great importance to student show mother tongue is
not English, because they almost do not have opportunity to hear or to speak
that language. Comprehending English is a difficult thing for students if they are does not have basic knowledge, especially in comprehending reading text.
Reading
is one of the basic communicative skills, but it has very complex process. It
can be said that, reading is a process in which reader finds information given
by the writer in the written form. In this case, reading can be said as an
interactive process, checks, and ask questions about what the text is about.
Leonard (1961) states that reading involves nothing more than correlating sound
image, that is ”spelling” while Robert Karim (1980) defines that reading is as
a thinking process instructing the ideas of the authors.
Reading comprehension is not just
reading with a loud voice but reading is
Established
to understand the meaning of word, sentences, and paragraph sense relationship
among ideas as it is. If a student just reads loudly but can’t understand
