According to Brown, reading comprehension is primarily a matter of developing appropriate, effecient comprehension strategies.
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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.
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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.
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H. Douglas Brown,
Op.Cit.,
p. 291.
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H. Douglas Brown,
Language Assessment : Principles and classroom Practices,
San Fransisco : Longman, 2003, p. 206.
Based on the explanation above, it can be summarized that reading comprehension is a process in which the reader tries to understand the content of the text. Meanwhile,
reading is getting information from a text. The readers read the text to get information about main idea topic, phrases in content, inference implied detail, grammatical
feature, detail scanning for a specifically stated detail, excluding fact not written unstated details, supporting idea, and vocabulary content. The readers describe
those components by using their own langage. Comprehension means skill to understanding the purpose and meaning of the text of the text, that the Readers
understand the content of the readings. From the specifications above and suggestion from validator that make sure the
instruments, the researcher concluded that on generall reading aspects are : 1.
Ideas Main Idea and Supporting Idea 2.
Meaning Expressionphrase and Vocabulary 3.
Details Implied and Specifically Detail 4.
Gramatical Features 5.
Excluding Fact Not Written
D. Concept of the Text
A text is a meaningful linguistic unit in a context. A linguistic unit is a phoneme or a morpheme or phrase or a clause, or a sentence or a discourse. Meaningful is
full of meaning.
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It means that a linguistic unit that is arranged in a neat and structured, so it has a meaning should be understood by the reader. The unit consists
of a meaningful sign which can support the meaning of the text.
Creating a text requires us to make choise about the words we use and how we put them together. If we make the right choice then we can communicate with others. Our
choice of words will depend on our purpose and our surroundings context.
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It Means that a text, formed from the words that the preparation is done by powerful
idea, so it has meaning. Put in the right position so that the reader can understand the contents of the message and understand the purpose of the text.
Based on theories above it can be concluded that Text is a unity of meaning that have relationships between words to one another. Formed by words that are prepared in
accordance with the position of the word, so it has meaning. Mistake in drafting the position of the word, can change the meaning and purpose of the text.
1. Concept of The Recount Text
According to Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson said that, “Recount is a piece of
text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they occurred. Its
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Sanggam Siahaan,
Generic Text Structure
Yogyakarta: PT Graha Ilmu, 2007, p. 1.
20
Mark Anderson and and Khaty Anderson,
Text Types In English 2
, South Yarra: Mac. Millan,2003,p.1.
purpose is to provide the audience with a description of what occurred and when it occured ”.
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It means that recount contains about events that have happened in the past. Recount is a depiction of a situation that has occurred. More over
according to Emi, Recount text is a text that felling what happened or the past .
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It means that Recount text is a kind of genre story,the use recount text is to explain what has been experienced by the author. Through the recount text the
author tells of an incident that had occurred.
According to Ken Hyland also mentioned the purpose of recount is “To reconstruct
past experiences by retelling events in original sequences”.
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It means that the pupose of recount text is telling the reader about accident that had been right.
Based on explanation above it can be concluded that Recount text is a text tells about something occurred in the past in order to give information into
chronologically of what had happened.
2. Generic Structure
Recount text is to retell events in a purpose of informing or entertaining. The generic structure of Recount text ;
1. Orientation
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Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson,
Text Types in English 3
South Yarra: McMillan Education PTY LTD, 1957, p.24.
22
Emi Emilia,
Pendekatan Genre Based Dalam Pengajaran Bahasa Inggris: Petunjuk Guru,
Bandung: Riski Press,2011 p.74
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Ken Hyland,
Second Language Writing
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 20.
