CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Now days, the progress of knowledge, science and
technology required us to absorb information. Information is merely the most
important aspect of our life. Book, magazine, newspaper, bulletin, internet
i.e. are source of information we can get if only through reading. Thus, we
must read thousands of books to avoid ourselves from out of date.
Reading is one of the most important skills we need in
increasing our personal welfare and social progress. It is cannot be denied
that language is an integral part of human life and society. It is used to
communication. In order to express argument or opinion to one another. Without
language we cannot develop our education, society tradition and culture, spread
global information etc. Shortly, we cannot do anything without using the
language. (Rani Nur 2003:4).
In our education system, specially in English teaching. It
has made the mastery of all language skills. English as an international
language in Indonesia is the first foreign language tough from elementary
school up to university. This proves that English subject is important for the
Indonesia students.
In teaching English as foreign language. It is necessary to
note that there are four skills to be mastered which cover, reading, speaking,
listening and writing. Among the four skills, reading gets greather attention
to analyze than other. As De Boer (1982: 166) states that “one of the best important
ways of learning however is through reading, success in school and in life
depends in large pat on your ability read”.
In general, people intend to be able to read and understand
English text because many scientific books are written in English. Until now,
most of the students still encounter difficulties in reading. This problem
faced by many lecturer and students who are not fluent in English. One of the
difficulties encountered by the students is how to remember what they have
read. But rapid reading is not necessarily good reading. It is important to
realize that we need to vary reading rate according to our intention in reading
and the students cannot find main idea what they after read.
Using Herringbone technique is one of the most important technique
to improve the reading comprehension. Because some technique have used in
teaching learning process in teaching English. But sometime with
method not fine development for student and seldom not be success.
Therefore the writer want to use this technique
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