THE USE OF SHORT STORY IN TEACHING
READING COMPREHENSION
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????
