A COMPARATIVE STUDY
OF STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS THAUGHT THROUGH
RETELLING STORY AND TRANSLATION
INTRODUCTION
Reading, as
one of the
basic skills of
language, reading dominates
the teaching materials in almost
English textbooks where there are some types of reading text that should
be mastered by the students
of Senior High
School. SMA/MA students should
be able to use the language in informational level that is expected to access
knowledge by the language skills. This objective is basically the same as comprehension
of reading texts
where the students
are faced with
the text written in
English then they
are hoped to
read it in
order to gather
information from it. In
this case, students
use skill of
reading in order
to understand the written text. In other words, they access knowledge by
reading skill.
To get
the knowledge from
the text, it
is important for
students to have
a good reading comprehension. Without
comprehension, reading would
be empty and meaningless. Comprehension is not only intended to know
what the letters stand for, but also involved power of fully
understanding. Reading involves more
than words recognition; that without comprehension, no reading takes
place. It means that comprehension
determines the essence of the reading process.
Reading comprehension
requires motivation, mental
frameworks for holding
the ideas, concentration and good study techniques. There are many ways to be good at reading
such as the
readers should know
the purpose in
reading, they also should
have awareness of
type of the
material they are
reading, and kinds
of learning strategies can
also be used
in reading that
can help them
in comprehending the reading text?????????????????.
