CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
We know that the English language as means of international communication and it becomes more important nowadays. Therefore the government of Indonesia places this language. In the curriculum not only the secondary schools, senior high school but also at in universities or institutes.
English as a foreign language involve four skills in language learning, they are: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Beside the four language skills above , reading is importance to students whose mother tongue is not English because they almost do not opportunity to hear or to speak that language so in This research, the researcher will concern with reading skill. Richard (1998:35)
Reading is a flexible for the students, because they can get information from the text they have read. Reading also is an active process indentifying important ideas comparing. Nuttal (1998:89)
Reading skill are the ability to analyze, evaluate and synthesize what one read. They are the ability to see relationship of ideas and use them as an old reading (Halvonson :1992:38) reading consist of some strategies to help the reader evaluate and understand the content of the material.
Problem mostly occurs to the students when reading book. Sometimes students were facing a book but do not read at all. they just can mention symbol word without getting any idea from the book. The researcher herself experienced when reading a book without any comprehension tends to feels sleepy
As the explanation above. The observation result when the researcher conducted teaching practice in IPA of SMAN 18 Makassar, the student reading comprehension skill still poor. Only a few of student can comprehend or can understand what they have read especially English text. It because many factors such as the student consider that English is a subject that very difficult, bored and scare because meaning and letters are different. The other factor is the teacher always uses the same method to teach English subject like the direct method. It is also make the students more bore to study English. As value of observation is the class room the student has score 5.5. This score is a poor category. In this research the aim is to solve this problem until the student have a good score. While the standard curriculum is 6.5 the researcher wants to achieve the score at 7.0 target in learning reading comprehension.
What a teacher has to consider as a prime important task how to design the reading course with strategies and techniques to facilitate the students to comprehend to concept from the author’s mind in the text. There have been a lot of techniques and strategies discussed by many expert dealing with reading comprehension. One of the technique to be offered here is Discovery Learning Method in which students are learning how to interact with the text they read. Mayer (2003: 186) point out that the Discovery learning method is a teaching technique that encourages students to take more active role in their learning process by answering a series of questions or solving problems designed to introduce a general concept.
Reading for general comprehension is a skill that involves absorbing the content of the text . As the reader , we are not looking for specific points only, but rather than it, we need to began Based on explanation above, the writer was interesting in conducting entitle “Improving Reading Comprehension through Discovery learning of the students at??????????????????????????
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