Types of Shemata Reading and Roles of Schemata
On the other hand, Wooley 2011:15 defines Reading comprehension as the process of making meaning from text. The goal, therefore, is to gain an overall
understanding of what is described in the text rather than to obtain meaning from isolated words or sentences.
Harmer 2001: 68 states that reading is useful for language development. Many
students develop their reading skill in purpose either for their careers, for study purpose or for pleasure. In reading the students are more or less understand about
what they have read. It means that the more they read, the better they will understand at it. The success of reading activity is often depending on the level of
the reading material which is given. How well the students will able to deal with reading materials depend on whether the reading materials are designed for
intensive or extensive reading. A good reading text can introduce an interesting topic, stimulate discussion, excite imagination response and provide the
springboard for the better reader, and create an attractive lesson. From the definition above, it can be summarized that reading comprehension is a
process not just to read the sequences of alphabets, but to discover and reveal what they mean and then send
it to the readers‟ mind in order to understand what they are all about and the writer intends about the text by bringing the readers
background knowledge and reading strategies.