IMPROVING
READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH SHORT STORY
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
We know that the English
language as means of international
communication and it
becomes more important
nowadays. Therefore the government of Indonesia places this language. In
the curriculum not only the secondary schools, senior high school but also at
in universities or institutes. English as a foreign language involve four skills in language learning,
they are: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Beside the four language
skills above , reading is importance to students whose mother tongue is not
English because they almost do
not opportunity to hear or to speak that language so in This research, the
researcher will concern
with reading skill
Pourkalhor & Kohan (2013:
1) Reading is not just a single skill but a combination of many skills and
processes in which the readers interact with printed words and texts for
content and pleasure. Through reading, one can teach writing, speaking,
vocabulary items, grammar, spelling and other language aspects. There are some
essential goals of reading such as enabling students to understand the world,
growing their interests, and finding solutions to their own problems. The use
of literature as a technique for teaching
both basic language skills
(i.e. reading, writing,
listening and speaking) and
language areas (i.e.
vocabulary, grammar and
pronunciation) is very
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