IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH THE
USE OF PQ4R METHOD
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Language is a tool and a process communication, English
language is a unifier language or international language and become a main
component in teaching. “The goals of teaching English in Indonesia are mainly
to enable the students to use English for communication and to read English
books. It is a foreign language that has a place for developing knowledge,
technology, culture, and art to make a good relationship with other countries”,
Faye in Asrawati(2009).
There four skills are in learning language, namely speaking,
listening, writing and reading. All of these four skills are important, but we
can say that reading is very important in teaching and learning process,
because the ability of the student to comprehend the subjects relatively
determined by their reading skill. Through reading, the students can get new
information, exchange their experience and horizon of thinking, and improve
their knowledge in many fields of science. Purpose of reading in any language
is to inform ourselves about something we are interested in our challenge our
knowledge on certain master. In other words, it will ???????
