A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT IN GUESSING AND MAKING INFERENCES TECHNIQUES
INTRODUCTION
English is an important subject that should be mastered by students of Senior High School. The students should be able to master not only one language skill, but also the other skills in English, i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing. From the four aspects, the research focuses only on reading comprehension of students because the students do not really get a better technique to comprehend the text.
Based on pre-observation of students in SMAN ???, it was found that there were some problems which students faced when they studied English, especially in reading comprehension. The problems covered the low motivation of the students, vocabulary mastery, structure of a sentence, finding the main idea of a text, and generic structure of a text.
The students’ low motivation might be caused by teacher who less stimulates them to learn. They were only asked to read passages and answer the questions with no explanation about it before the teaching process. Consequently, it might make them be more confused in comprehending the text. Besides, the inappropriate selection of the text which was discussed in the class might not attract the students’ attention. Therefore, the students could not reach the minimum criteria of required curriculum.
Likewise, the studies (see, e.g. Ayu, 2013; Andam, 2013; and Kurnia, 2013) indicate that SMA students experience many difficulties in their reading, such as?????????????????????????????????????????????
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