A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF
STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN THOSE TAUGHT THROUGH PREDICTIVE
BAB I
INTRODUCTION
Reading was strongly recommended for
all students who learn English subject. By
reading, the students can get information
and knowledge from the text. The
students are expected to be good at reading. Good at reading means the
students used their prior knowledge for connecting
words to their thoughts. In line
with the concept of reading as an active
process which was important when reading process,
the readers have to involve the interaction between thought and language.
In fact, based on the information from the teacher when the researcher
conducted pre research in SMAN 1 Kota, the
teacher said that some students were successful
in comprehending the text like narrative
text but the others still have some problems in
comprehending the texts especially in getting the main idea and find the
specific information from the text. In addition, their problems were also
related to some factors such as, identifying
the main idea of the passage. Moreover, the
students also tended to be passive and the teacher was the centred, and
they do not focus during the learning
process. When the teachers give the
students some questions and asked them to
give the answer directly, they could not answer
or gave the responds quickly.
Moreover, there was one important factor that
might also influence the students’ problems in reading that
was the reading technique. Based on
the information from the students, they said that they got bored because the
teacher used the same technique in every reading
activity. Therefore, the researcher assumed
that the students’ problems were also caused by the same old teaching
technique used by???????????
