Reader’s Log Basic Reading I
10 individual factors include the readiness, motivation, and learning experience. This
research focuses on the last factors a bout students‟ motivation.
The comprehension of text in reading activity is important. It is a process of making meaning from texts or articles. The students can easily find the points
and main ideas of texts by understanding texts through reading comprehension. Kustaryo 1988 states the most important comprehension skills is finding the
main idea. Therefore, the students will usually understand the text clearly. According to Kustaryo 1988, p. 11:
“Reading comprehension means understand what has been read. It is an active thinking process that depends not only on
comprehension skill but also the students‟ experience and prior knowledge comprehension involves understanding the vocabulary
seeing the relationship among words and concepts, organizing ideas
recognizing author‟s making judgment, and evaluating.”
Kustaryo 1988 also states recognizing vocabularies through definition is useful because students will know the meaning of words and learn to arrange
words correctly. The students will find new vocabularies, then they will find dictionary to know the meaning of the words even its parts of speech. By finding
new words in vocabulary, the students‟ vocabulary mastery is improved. After knowing about theories of reading, the researcher will give
explanati ons about the theory of reader‟s log. The explanation will be discussed
after this part.