Improving the X-5 students ’ active participation and their reading comprehension achievement of narrative text through Note Taking technique at SMAN 1

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Jember, Jenggawah
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	In Indonesia, English is a foreign language that should be mastered by the Junior and Senior High School students based on the English InstitutionalLevel Curriculum. The objective of learning English is to develop spoken and written competency. Spoken competency covers listening and speaking, and written competency covers reading and writing. Both spoken and written competency of the language are intended to reach the goal of learning objectives. Therefore, the students have to master all the language skills such as listening, reading, speaking and writing and three English components, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Based on the four skills above, reading is one of the language skills which is very important. Reading is an important activity in life that can update people knowledge. By reading, people will be able to get much information that can enrich their knowledge in their life. In fact, reading is not an easy thing to do. There are so many reason and problems faced when people are going to read something, such as laziness and bored. Those problems also occurred in teaching and learning process in the class of reading. The problems happened to the X-5 students of SMAN 1 Jenggawah Jember, based on the result of the preliminary study that the researcher conducted at SMAN 1 Jenggawah by interviewing the English teacher and observing the teaching and learning process. The result' showed when the English teacher asked the students to read the text by themselves. Most of them read the text, but after they finished reading they were unable to retell the ideas dealing with the text. To make it worse a lot of students did not know the content of the story well. They did not know what the story tell about. Moreover, they had difficulties in finding and considering the necessary and unnecessary information in the text. Considering both of them was important, because not all the information in the text were needed to use to be the main idea to know the content or the purpose of the text. In this case, they just read the text given, without understanding it. Further, the students usually read the text more than once if they were being asked by the teacher. They still needed additional time to read the text to answer the questions. They were still looking for the answers. Sometimes, they
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