The Formulation of the Problem
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the same reading purpose varies with the difficulty of selection and the skill of the reader different authorities suggest a variety of purpose of reading. We
believe that most of these can be organized into five categories: 1. Finding the main idea, 2. Finding supporting detail, 3.
Grasping the author’s plan of organization, 4. Following a sequence of even or thought, 5. Critically
appraising the author’s work.
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Meanwhile, Alton L Raygon, he said that :”...The purpose of this reading is to catch all information about what the author tries to say in a printed materials
to comprehension, ascension, also inte rpretation”.
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According to Henry Guntur Tarigan in his book, “The main purpose of
reading is find and get information in content, understand in the text and get information by skimming,
scanning, and comprehension”.
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From the definition above, it shows that the purpose of the reading is not only to understand the reading passage, but also to find out the ideas written by
the author. There are some reading ability to development of various reading skills
such as : kinds of reading and types of reading skill.