IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH
PREDICTING STRATEGY OF THE TENTH YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English as a world language plays an important role in the
development of science and technology. Many scientific articles or books in
general are written in English. That demands those who are involved in any
particular field to be able to understand the English written materials to
group information and knowledge. English involve four language skills namely,
speaking, listening, writing and reading.
Reading is about
understanding written texts. It is a complex activity that involves both
perception and thought. Reading consists of two related processes: word
recognition and comprehension. Word recognition refers to the process of
perceiving how written symbols correspond to one’s spoken language. Comprehension
is the process of making sense of words, sentences and connected text. Readers
typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge,
experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text.
Much of what we know about reading is based on studies.
Reading as one of the language skill is very important in
language teaching and learning process but, it is not easy to do. Those skills
must be taught integrated as much as possible. The priority of teaching English
in school is reading because it can cover three other
