CHAPTER 1

1.INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Language is one of the most important things in communication and
used as a tool of communication among the nations in all over the world. As
an international language, English is very important and has many
interrelationships with various aspects of life owned by human being. In
Indonesia, English considered as the first foreign language and taught
formally from elementary school up to the university level.
In English, there are four skills that should be mastered, they are:
listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The reading skill became very
important in the education field, because students need to be eercised and
trained in order to have a good reading skill.
!eading is also something crucial and indispensable for the students
because the success of their study depends on the greater part of their ability
to read. If their reading skill is poor they are very likely to fail in their study
or at least they will have difficulty in making progress. "n the other hand, if
they have a good ability in reading, they will have a better chance to
succeed in their study.
In reading, to comprehend the tet the readers should be able to
manage every part of the tet, because it is easy to gain the comprehension
in reading when the readers are able to organi#e the tet. $ometimes, they
may find form of pre%&uestioning and it is important for them to
comprehend a reading tet with having knowledge in general view of the
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tet. Theoretically, pre%&uestioning itself can build the students' interest and
motivation before students read the whole tet. (oreover, the students can
predict what will be discussed on the tet. In line with this study, students
may improve their reading comprehension if they know about pre%
&uestioning and it is very important to understand about pre%&uestioning in
order to get good comprehension in reading.
)ased on the eplanation above, the writer is interested in finding
out the effects of treatment with pre%&uestioning and without pre%
&uestioning on students' reading comprehension achievement and concluded
that the pre%&uestioning consists of some &uestions provided before the
students read the whole tet. It tends to build the students' interest and
motivation to read the tet.

1.2 Probe! of the Study
)ased on the background of study above, the problem of the study is
as follows:
1. *an pre%&uestioning improve the students' reading comprehension at the
$econd +rade $tudents of $(A, - Ar.awinangun *irebon in Academic
year /0-/1/0-234
1.3 The Ob"ect#$e of the Study
The ob.ective of the study is:
To find out if pre%&uestioning improve the students' reading
comprehension at the second grade student of at $(A, - Ar.awinangun
*irebon in academic year /0-/1/0-2.
1.4 %#!#tat#on Of The Study
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In this study, the writer only focuses to the effects of treatment 5with
pre%&uestioning, without pre%&uestioning6 on the students' reading
comprehension. It is conducted only for the second grade student at $(A,
- Ar.awinangun in Academic year /0-/1/0-2.Thus, the result of this study
only generali#ed or applied to the target population, specifically to the
$econd +rade $tudents of $(A, - Ar.awinangunin 7abupaten *irebon.

1.5 Hy&othe'#'
The hypothesis of this study can be mastered alternative and null
hypotheses. The hypotheses are, as follows:
-. 8a: There is significant effect of treatment with pre%&uestioning and
without pre%&uestioning on the reading comprehension achievement
to the second grade students of $(A, - Ar.awinangun *irebon in
academic year /0-/1/0-2.
8o: There is no significant effect of treatment with pre%&uestioning and
without pre%&uestioning on the reading comprehension achievement
of the second grade students of I9$ $(A, - Ar.awinangun *irebon
in academic year /0-/1/0-2.
1() Organ#*at#on of +r#t#ng
The paper is organi#ed as follows:
*hapter I is introduction that contains the )ackground of
!esearch, $tatement of 9roblem, Aims of the !esearch, Limitation of
the !esearch, "rgani#ation of the :riting.
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*hapter II is Theoretical !eview that contains the ;efinition of
Teaching :riting, 8ow to Teach :riting, *omic $trips, Teaching
(ethod.
*hapter III is (ethodology of research that contains the design of
the study, (ethod of collection the data, techni&ue of data analysis.
*hapter I< is Analysis and 8ypothesis that contains the process
of teaching :riting, the result of teaching writing, data analysis.
*hapter < is *onclusion and $uggestions.