CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
In learning English,
there are four skills.
They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The four skills mentioned
are diveded into receptive and productive skills. Speaking and writing are
productive skills, while listening and reading are receptive skills. Beside the
four language skills above, reading
is of great importance to students show mother tongue is not English, because
they almost do not have opportunity to hear or to speak that language.
Comprehending English is a difficult thing for students if they do not have
basic knowledge , especially in comprehending reading text.
In teaching reading,
teacher should introduce other materials as an alternative to give various
situations to students
in classroom process. These materials can be a media; it can be to stimulate
the students’ motivation during the classroom process. In the other hand, most
high motivation is needed to learn reading.
Related to the
statements above, the researcher did observation that was done at the first
year students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Bontoala, the researcher faces many
problems in teaching learning English. The crucial problems are the students’
problems in reading is the students’ comprehension. The
problems are; first,the students are bored to read a text because it is not
interesting. Second, the students have limited vocabulary so they are difficult
to understand the reading text. Thirdly, the students do not know the structure
of sentence, it makes the students to work hard to translate the word in
sentence of the text
Based on the result interview to the English teacher
at the first year students
of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Bontoala Makassar, he stated that the mean score of the
students’ achievement in reading English is very low. It is about 5.7 but the
standard of curriculum 6.5 and the target score is 7.5.
From the problems above the researcher will
apply one of teaching strategy. This is an interesting strategy and it can
increase the student’s reading ability, namely authentic material. This
strategy is designed to create the students’ reading comprehension.
Authentic material
are interesting material taken from magazine, newspaper, brochure and other
teacher resources that are not specially prepared for pedagogical
purpose. The material can be challenging and interesting for the students where
it is inline nowdays,
many students are
keen authentic
materials. Therefore, the English teachers can use it in teaching
process.
According to Smith
& Johnson (1994:157) authentic material is any kind of material that taken
from the real world not especially created for the purpose of language
teaching. This might include language based on reality such as magazine,
advertisement, newspaper or graphics and visual sources such as maps, pictures,
symbols and charts.
Relating to the case above, the writer conducted a research
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