| dc.description.abstract | In teaching English at junior high schools in Indonesia, reading is one of the
English skills that should be learned by the students besides listening, speaking and
writing. Grellet (1996: 3) states that reading is the process of understanding a reading
text. It means that when students read a reading material, they have to get the
message from the text. Reading becomes important to be mastered because reading is
a bridge to understand the scientific books students have to read. Carrel, et.al ( 1995:
1) state that for many students, reading is the most important of the four language
skills in a second language. Moreover, reading is a receptive language process. It is a
psycholinguistic process in that it starts with a linguistic surface representation
encoded by a writer and ends with meaning which the reader constructs (Goodman in
Carrel, 1995: 12). | en_US |
