Using English Short Stories To Improve
Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement
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 popular within the field of foreign
language learning and teaching nowadays.
Reading is one of
the main skills in English that plays important role. Reading can be defined as
an active cognitive process of interacting with the print and
monitoring comprehension to establish meaning and through reading we can get
much knowledge, study new words, comprehend ideas, study the word are used, how
to implement the grammatical rules, and gain the information.
Practically, it
is not easy for students to read materials in foreign language than in their
native language. They have to face new vocabularies and structures that are
different with that they have in their own language. They sometimes also
have to face long, difficult, boring, and uninteresting passages both in the
textbooks and in the test papers. Those things can make the students frustrated
and lose their motivation to learn English. The reason for reading will finally
simply become learning to read instead of reading to learn.
The role of a teacher is important to help students in
determining how much and what subject they should read. The teacher is a person
who should create the????
