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
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