Concept of Reading REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

understanding of his own before reading the text, and then connect the reader with the results of reading comprehension before reading the opinion that the conclusion of the text. Then, Willis states that Comprehension is defined as intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed through interactions between text and reader. 15 it means the mean comprehension is understanding awoke between readers with text, through thoughts while reading text. the interaction between text with the reader is in the process of building understanding text. Comprehension is a process of understanding text done by the readers to probe the information. Reading as the importan skill English, the reader have to know the topic and passage of the text, and reading comprehension is the process to know the passage. Comprehension as the process is during the reader reading and understanding the passage. Before ready the text the reader should have their own suggestion related to the topic then it used to understand and elaborate the passage of the text. Therfore reading is also interaction activity between the text and the reader. Karen states, reading comprehension is the process of constructing meaning by coordinating a number of complex processes that include word reading, word and world knowledge, and fluency. 16 It means that reading comprehension is a process reader on reading activities build understanding of a text. He combines logical thinking which is owned by a collection of letters, words and sentences in the text and use world knowledge, and fluency. 15 Judy Willis, Teaching the Brain to Read, Virginia: ASCD Publications,2008, p. 138. 16 Karen R. Harris and Steve Graham, Op.Cit, p.2. According to Brown, reading comprehension is primarily a matter of developing appropriate, effecient comprehension strategies. 17 It means comprehension is ability to understand and getting information something, in this case, the students are able to answer and understand a descriptive reading question forms. In teaching reading, teacher must know specification of reading comprehension. According to Brown, specification in reading comprehension : 1. Main idea topic 2. Phrases in content 3. Inference implied detail 4. Grammatical feature 5. Detail scanning for a specifically stated detail 6. Excluding fact not written unstated details 7. Supporting idea 8. Vocabulary content. 18 It means that specification of reading comprehension must be applied in the process of teaching reading. Reading comprehension is not only understanding content of the text but also knowing main idea in the text. 17 H. Douglas Brown, Op.Cit., p. 291. 18 H. Douglas Brown, Language Assessment : Principles and classroom Practices, San Fransisco : Longman, 2003, p. 206.