Objective of the study

b. Scanning Peter Mather and Rita Mc Carthy stated that scanning is the process of quickly searching material in order to locate the specific bits of information. When scanning, the reader doesn’t star at the beginning and read through to the end. Instead, the reader only jumps around in the next trying to fine and locate specific information needed. 12 c. Intensive Reading Intensive reading involves approaching the text under the guidance. It is often refers to the careful reading or translation. The aim is to arrive at an understanding, not only of what the text means, but also how the meaning is produce, the how is as important as the what. 13 In other words, intensive reading is reading shorter text is extract specific information. This activity is likely more to emphasize the accuracy activity in evolving reading for detail. It is used to gaining a deep understanding of a text, which important for the reader. The process of scanning takes a more prominent role here than skimming. Reader is trying to absorb all the information given. For example, reading dosage, instruction for medicine. d. Extensive Reading Extensive reading should involve reading for pleasure what Richard Day calls joyful reading, the reader deals with longer texts as a whole, which requires the ability to understand the component parts and their contribution to the overall meaning, example: reading newspaper article, short story or novel. 12 Ibid., p. 526 13 Christine Nuttal, Teaching Reading Skill: New Edition, Wales: Heineman, 1996, p.38 According to Jeremy Harmer that one of the fundamental conditions of a successful extensive reading program is that students should be reading material which they can understand. 14 This is enhanced if students have a chance to choose what they want to read, if the students have a chance to choose what they want to read, if the students are struggling to understand every word, the students can hardly be reading for pleasure. It is the main goal of this activity. This means that English teachers need to provide books which either by chance or because they have been especially written, are readily accessible to the students.

B. Narrative Text

1. The Understanding of Narrative Text

Before going to the definition of narrative text, it is better to know first definition of the text itself. The narrative paragraph can be fun to write because you tell a story or relate an event. Narratives have a beginning, middle, and an end. Any time you go to a movie or read a fiction book, you are looking at a narrative. Narrative text often describes events from the writers life. According to narrative text describe a sequence of events or tell a story, in another word, narrative text is describing an experience. Text is a communicative event that must satisfy several conditions. That term told by Beaugrande and Dressler. According to that term, a traffic sign, a newspaper article and a novel are all texts that correspond to the differing rules of particular genres of text. The entire genre mentioned before have particular linguistic features, fulfill particular functions and are bound to specific production and reception situations. 15 14 Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Pearson; Longman, 2004, Fourth Edition, p. 383 15 Stefan Titsher, et, al, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis, London: SAGE Publications, 2000, p. 21