A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF
STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN STUDENTS WHO ARE TAUGHT
THROUGH NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER TECHNIQUE AND THOSE THROUGH PREDICTIVE READING
TECHNIQUE
I. INTRODUCTION
Reading is one of the
important skills that are needed by
the students in getting information based
on what they have already read. It
is a complex interaction between the text and the reader
which is shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge, experiences, and
language community which is culturally and
socially situated. Grellet (1981: 8) mentioned that reading as the
process of understanding a written text, means extracting the required
information from it as efficiently as possible. It also supported by Bernhardt
(1991:6) in Suparman (2007:13) that quoted reading is considered as an
intrapersonal problem-solving task that takes place within the brain knowledge
structure. It meant that, people read and tried to understand and got a lot of
information based on what they were reading.
According to Smith (1982:166) added reading is a matter of
identifying letters in order to get the meaning from what is read, involving
making connection among words and ideas presented
in the text and the readers’ own
background knowledge. In addition, Rubin (1993: 196) assumed that the reading
skills that are usually found in the
interpretation are as follow: (1)
determining word meaning from the context, (2) finding
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