IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH
LISTEN-READ-DISCUSS (L-R-D) STRATEGY
CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Nowadays,
science and technology development demands people to increase their knowledge
and experience. One way to increase their knowledge and experience is by
reading. Reading is one-step to study effectively. Through this step, it can
develop our memory, comprehension, and more knowledge for example when the
people study textbook, article, short story, and even a novel. Reading can
increase our science and give us knowledge information. Reading is an activity
with a purpose. Someone may read for many reasons, for instance to gain
information and exiting knowledge, or in order to critique a writer’s ideas or
writing style.
Reading
is one of the basic communicative skill, 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
