INCREASING THE STUDENTS’ READING
COMPREHENSION THROUGH LISTEN-READ-DISCUSS (LRD) STRATEGY AT THE SMA.
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
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