Reading is more than a personal reward. In a society which simply assumers total literacy. Reading is a total indispensable to modern life.[1] Reading is the one of most essential skills that ought to be learned by students. It is generally preferably to begin reading only after the learners have some basic know ledge of the spoken language, so that reading becomes as quickly as possible a matter of recognizing meanings rather than deciphering.
The reader can skim a text to get the general idea of a passage. For example, most readers are able to read a newspaper headline and whither or not they want to read the article. Successful readers can scan things they read to locate facts or specific information, for example, to locate a number in the phone book or a file from a list on a computer screen.
Reading involves the identification and recognition of printed or written symbols which serve as stimuli for the recall of meanings built up through past experience, and further the construction of new meanings through the reader’s manipulation of relevant concepts already in his possession.[2]
Successful readers can also read for through comprehension. This mean they read to understand the total meaning of a passage. Finally, successful readers read extensively. This means they read broadly in areas of interest, such as mystery hovels, or in a field or study, such as history.
Reading is so interrelated with the total educational process that educational success requires successful reading. Experience has taught us that those who fail in school usually have failed first in reading. Reading is that first button in the garment of education.
Through reading we acquire many o our standards of behavior and morality: we may broaden our interest, our tastes, and our understanding of others. As Aldous Huxley points out “Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exist, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”[3]
Comprehension refers to the ability to understand something.[4] The comprehension of reading is important to be mastered by the students. Reading comprehension is though to be a process were by the reader constructs meaning by interacting with text. In the comprehending process, readers ought to be able to transmit the information in their mind to the information in text, and than readers is an interaction between the reader and the text that is the process of comprehending.
Reading comprehension is “result interactions between the perception of graphic symbols and the reader’s language skill and knowledge of the world.”[5]
Reading comprehension is finding the determinant meaning (author’s and implicit meaning text) and toward the notion reading comprehension.
1 Requires recognition that text has in terminate meaning.
2 Empowers readers to create a meaning.
The aim of this research is to encourage participants of reflect on their own views about teaching and learning and consider how these compare the their reading ability and situation, thereby, reading text is now an important way for the general population to access information, this has not always been the case.
According to Emerald V. Dechant Reading is the process of interpreting sense stimuli. Furthermore Dechant said that reading is “performed whenever one experiences sensory stimulation.”[6]
Reading is the process of getting meaning from text. As Richard, and Platt state that “reading perceives a written text in order to understand its contents. The understanding that results is called reading, comprehension”[7].
According to the writer these theory above has correlation with this research title. Therefore the writer use that theory to leading this research.
[1] Arthur Ellis, Elementary Language Arts Instruction (America: Seattle Pacific University, 1989), P.254.
[2] Merry Hobb, Definition Reading, 1999, Reading Journal, (Online <http://www.wikipediaorg/wiki/Reading>). 15 Juni 2008.
[3] Emerald U. Dechant and Henry P. Smith, Psychology in Teaching Reading (new jersey: Prentice hall, 1977), p. 1.
[4] Hebbert and Eve clark. What is reading comprehension, Reading Journal,2007(Online) < http://en.wikipediaorg/wiki/Reading/cability>). 21 April 2008,
[5] Harrod, How to Increase Reading Ability, (New York: Longman), p. 315.
[6] Emerald V. Dechant, “ Improping the Teaching of Reading”, 1986
[7] Richard L W, “Reading Skills”, 2007 <http://www.scs.tamu .edu/selfhelp/elibrary skills.asp>, August 2, 2008
