THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF INQUIRY BASED LEARNING
STRATEGY ON TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF NEWS ITEM
(AN
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMA)
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
In
English teaching learning,
students should master four language skills. The language
skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing. As a language
skill, reading has
significant role that
influence the other
language skills and components.
In addition, the
success of learning
any subject matters depends
on the competence
of reading comprehension
since it functions as a major
tool for finding and understanding information. Reading also has the value to
help students learn to express their own thought and to make them
familiar with the
language pattern and
ways of using
language efficiently. Thus, mastering reading skill is very important.
Rebecca
(2005: 8) Reading is fundamentally important for success. It opens the door to
personal freedom or shuts the door to opportunity. Learning to read is a means
to an end. If children have difficulty learning to read early, how can they be
expected to excel in other subjects as well? The best prevention of reading
difficulties, therefore, is early intervention strategies at the preschool/kindergarten
level. Instead of heated debates on which approach is best suited for early
reading success, educators should be discussing the most efficient method(s)
that produces the best results.
In reading class, we may
face some difficulties, such as: difficult to get the meaning of words, to get
information and to make conclusion of the passage. All
of these problems
will affect the
learners to comprehend
the passage and reading
achievement. Therefore, those
students need strategies or techniques in order to overcome
the problem.
There are many
kinds of texts
that can be
used as narrative, descriptive, explanation,
recount, report, exposition,
discussion, procedure, review,
narrative, anecdote, spoof, and ?????
