Everybody knows that English is widely employed in vast parts of the world for different purposes and fields. Here, English functions are to connect dissimilar culture, social and economic background, ways of life and religion. In other words, the differences require and internationally accepted bridge of universal and acceptable language to enable people to have agreement to solve problem, to exchange knowledge, science and information. The history then places English as the most common international communication device. English is one of the important foreign languages needed by Indonesian society. It has been taught in our school for a number of years. The aim of learning English is to make us easier to communicate with other people from other countries. This is the reason why Indonesian government places English as the first foreign language than other languages such as French, Chinese, German and Arabic.
Mastering English means holding the key for international communication success. For the sake of creating capable people who will take parts in any kinds of international relationship, people should be educated, trained properly and after that measured for their competence of having interaction in English. The consequence is that it is principal to provide them with good English learning strategy and instrument to measure the student level. In daily communication and language testing, difficulties often come up when students can not understand. Some of the language element which then bring problems in determining the content of the message. Mentioned impediments have to be analyzed to clarify what types of problem are found. Sharply, English learning process should be followed by the appropriate language testing to measure its efficiency.
It is stated that the students’ ability in finding out the content of the message needs receptive skills. Students who read a lot seem to acquire English better than those who do not. In other words, one of the main advantages of reading activity for students is that activities will improve their general English proficiency level. Especially for reading comprehension, the more frequents of reading language elements, the better the learners reading skill will be. To sum up, students reading ability derives from the years of process.
The explanation above indicated that reading ability is a vital skill. It is a basic tool to supports one’s success as a student. As we know, reading comprehension is one of the fundamental language skills through which people get in the large portion of their education, their information, their understanding of human affairs of the world. Through the normal course, reading comprehension is used as much as writing. Reading plays critical role in communication. That is the reason why reading becomes a part of language testing. In other words, reading is not only reading, but understanding and trying to find out information from the reading text is an important role.
Mastering English means holding the key for international communication success. For the sake of creating capable people who will take parts in any kinds of international relationship, people should be educated, trained properly and after that measured for their competence of having interaction in English. The consequence is that it is principal to provide them with good English learning strategy and instrument to measure the student level. In daily communication and language testing, difficulties often come up when students can not understand. Some of the language element which then bring problems in determining the content of the message. Mentioned impediments have to be analyzed to clarify what types of problem are found. Sharply, English learning process should be followed by the appropriate language testing to measure its efficiency.
It is stated that the students’ ability in finding out the content of the message needs receptive skills. Students who read a lot seem to acquire English better than those who do not. In other words, one of the main advantages of reading activity for students is that activities will improve their general English proficiency level. Especially for reading comprehension, the more frequents of reading language elements, the better the learners reading skill will be. To sum up, students reading ability derives from the years of process.
The explanation above indicated that reading ability is a vital skill. It is a basic tool to supports one’s success as a student. As we know, reading comprehension is one of the fundamental language skills through which people get in the large portion of their education, their information, their understanding of human affairs of the world. Through the normal course, reading comprehension is used as much as writing. Reading plays critical role in communication. That is the reason why reading becomes a part of language testing. In other words, reading is not only reading, but understanding and trying to find out information from the reading text is an important role.
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