THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF USING IMAGING STRATEGY IN INCREASING STUDENT READING
COMPRHEHENSION ACHIEVEMENT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background Of The Problem
Reading is one of the basic skill in foreign language. Reading is the
ability to get something from the text
or the others media. According to Eddie C. Kennedy (05:1997) he says that”
Reading is the ability of an individual to recognize a visual form associate
the form with a sound or meaning acquired in the past and the basic of past
experience, understand and interpret its meaning”.[1]
By mastered this skill reading we can make the increase our skill, imagination
about something likes in the descriptive text. Reading including speech or
speaking and writing. Besides that, reading can relation the other skill. The
reading can make the benefit for the reader.
Therefore, reading is really important, with
read we can get information what we want and everything what we need. Besides
that, with reading we can know the other country in the world although we never
visit it.
Reading text have many kind, likes:
narrative text, descriptive text, recount text, report text, and prosedur text.
But, in the thesis only discussing about descriptive text. Arief
kurniawan (22:2007) states that “ Descriptive text is the text which contents
to describing someone or something with spesifik and have purpose to give
information.” [2] generic
structure in descriptive text. (1) identification is to identify about to the
topic describe, likes things, animals or peoples. (2) description is explain to
identification. Descriptive text often to use “be” in present or past. And the
also often use simple present tenses. so, we can use the descriptive text to
the student. Because, with descriptive text can make the student be anxiuous to
read so that can make imajination about something in the text until make
student interest to read.
The students
in
generally
find it difficult
to
reading descriptive text,one
of thing that is the students lazy to read because their not interest for what
they want to read. And the student do not understand to make differences
descriptive text with the another kinds of text in reading. As
also happens
in English Department
VB STAIN Kerinci.
Most the student is lazy and not to interest
about they read. And not understand what is descriptive and what the
differences with another kinds in reading text likes narrative or report.
Based on my grand tour that in English Department VB STAIN Kerinci, the
average difficulties in reading descriptive text and not interest to read . based
on my grand tour the student got A 25 % , B 30% , C 45%. Meanwhile, we can use imaging
strategie in reading descriptive text. Because, with imaging strategies the
student can be easy to understand ,that the descriptive text also relation with
the imaging strategies. So, if we describe about something likes animal or
people,of course we will imaging what the other people describe.
Therefore, we have to need something interest to make
the reader want reading and make the student understand in reading descriptive
text. So, the reseach will be focused on “THE EFFECT OF USING IMAGING TO IMPROVING THE
STUDENTS IN READING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT VB KERINCI
ACADEMIC YEARS of 2013/2014”
B.
Identification
Of Problem
Based on the interview results, the researcher
identified the problem. First, The student had problems in the reading text
because they are lazy to read. They felt the reading text not interesting to
read. Second, the student not understand to differences the descriptive text
and the others likes, narrative and repot text.
On the other hand, we will use the imaging strategy
to make the students understand it.
C.
Limitation
Of problem
The research is limited to investigate the effect of
using imaging to improving the student in reading descriptive text.
The research used 25 students and
focused on explanation about descriptive text and how to the student can
understand with used that strategy.
D.
Research
Question.
·
Does the descriptive text can make the
student to interesting to read?
·
Does the imaging give better effect on
the student?
E.
Purpose
Of The Research
·
To know whether the descriptive text can
make the students to interestinf to read.
·
To find out whether Imaging Strategy
give better effect on the students.
F.
Significance
of Research
After conducting this research, the writer expected
that it would be give contributions to the reader, the teacher, and the
students where it was done.
1. The
reader will have new perspective on the topic and will consider it for
continuing study.
2. The
teacher will have some information about their students and their teaching
strategies. The teacher know the strengt and the weakness of the students in
the reading text. So they will implement the strategy with their students.
3. This
study will be useful to the student to give information about descriptive text.
G.
Definition
of Key Term
1. Descriptive
text is the genre of the text which to describing something and have purpose to
give information.
2. Imaging
strategy is the one of the strategy in reading which have the relation with
descriptive text to make the reader to know something naturally.
REFERENCES
·
Webster, Teaching
Reading Descriptive Text to Improve Student’s Reading Skill trough E-book on
Internet,february 3th 2011, http://universityofibnkhaldunbogor-indonesia.blogspot.com, replicied on december 25th 2013
Webster,ayat alqur’an dan terjemah,
august,2011, http://www.ayatalquran.net, replicied on december,26th 201
Kurniawan, arief. 2007. Mengeksplorasi
jenis-jenis teks bahasa inggris. Multikreasi: jakarta
[1] Webster, Teaching
Reading Descriptive Text to Improve Student’s Reading Skill trough E-book on
Internet,february 3th 2011, http://universityofibnkhaldunbogor-indonesia.blogspot.com,
replicied on december 25th 2013
[2]Kurniawan,
arief. 2007. Mmengeksplorasi jenis-jenis teks bahasa inggris. Multikreasi. Hal
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