A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN STUDENTS WHO ARE TAUGHT THROUGH NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER TECHNIQUE AND THOSE THROUGH PREDICTIVE READING TECHNIQUE
I. INTRODUCTION
Reading is one of the important skills that are needed by the students in getting information based on what they have already read. It is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge, experiences, and language community which is culturally and socially situated. Grellet (1981: 8) mentioned that reading as the process of understanding a written text, means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible. It also supported by Bernhardt (1991:6) in Suparman (2007:13) that quoted reading is considered as an intrapersonal problem-solving task that takes place within the brain knowledge structure. It meant that, people read and tried to understand and got a lot of information based on what they were reading.
According to Smith (1982:166) added reading is a matter of identifying letters in order to get the meaning from what is read, involving making connection among words and ideas presented in the text and the readers’ own background knowledge. In addition, Rubin (1993: 196) assumed that the reading skills that are usually found in the interpretation are as follow: (1) determining word meaning from the context, (2) finding main????????????