Objective of the Research Use of the Research

necessary for having a good management in teaching. It should be considered about ability of the teacher in managing the class and also the professionalism of the teacher so that teaching goal can be achieved. And also teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learning to learn, setting the condition for learning. Our understanding of how the learners learn will determine our philosophy of education, teaching style, Approach, methods, and classroom technique English is a foreign language in Indonesia. Wilkins also says that teaching English as foreign language is not the mother tongue of any group within the country where it is being learned. 3 It means that the students who learned English as foreign language have a little opportunity to use their English in real life situation. Teaching a foreign language is to provide the students with the skills which enable to communicate orally with speakers of other nationalities who also learn this language. Based on the explanation above the researcher concludes that the teaching English as foreign language is a systematic activity which includes many components to share knowledge, experience and also building their attitude, character and change somebody’s ideas and manage three elements: transmitting knowledge, teaching of process inquiry and encouraging interpersonal relationship. 3 D.A Wilkins, Linguistics in Language Teaching London: Edward Arnold Publisher,1980,p.7

2. Concept of Learning

Learning is a process of change from not knowing to knowing. Particularly, this research discusses the learning process of reading comprehension in English through herringbone technique. According to Kimble in Brown, learning is acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction. It is a relatively permanent change in a behavioral tendency and a result of reinforced practice. 4 In addition,learning involves activeness, conscious focus on and acting upon events outside or inside the organism, and also some forms of practices, perhaps reinforced practices. It means that learning is an activity for getting knowledge, skill, and experience about subject learning which need practice to improve the understanding of its. It can be seen that learning can be defined as change in behavior. This change occurs as a consequence of experience in some specify situation. The change brought about by developing a new skill and changing attitude. Based on statement above, it can be concluded that learning is the process of getting knowledge and understand the lesson or the subject. 4 H. Douglas Brown, Loc. Cit .