15 solving experience. Students’ enjoyment of reading is possibly provided by its
starting reading task that is within their language competence. In this case, they have been studying English for more then 100 hours Jeffries, 1986: vii. It also
set some steps of effective reading technique, which are allowed them to speed up their reading ability easier. The other important part of the task is solving problem
area. This is available through some specific part of language such as guessing word test, thinking of topic, and others. The writer here, therefore, proposes
algorithmic reading activity to solve these three level problem to change the previous condition to be better.
B. Statement of Research Problems
The writer find the problem arise above, and try to confine the research to
one several of them. Those are :
1. Can algorithmic reading program improve students’ English reading competence ?
2. How effective is algorithmic reading program to improve students’ English reading competence ?
3. Which part of students’ reading competence is improved by the algorithmic reading program ?
C. Research Objectives
This research focuses on algorithmic reading program to improve students’ English reading competence. In details, this research has the objectives
to know : 1. Algorithmic reading program can improve students’ English reading
competence.
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students’ English reading competence. 3. The part of students’ reading competence which will be improved
D. Benefits of the Study
The result of the study can give the benefits : 1. For the students :
It can motivate the students to do more reading activities, and improve their English reading competence. When this discussion goes deeper to the
problem of a reader, it starts from the competence of understanding the language he reads. If he find this as his main problem, he will find himself read slow,
become slower and have no fun in doing this activity. Soon, he will be strongly less motivated to read a lot. Actually this is a bad cycle of less motivated readers
Nuttal, 1987: 169 which will be broken by this research. 2. For the teachers :
It improves their teaching reading strategy by giving the example tasks in their classroom experience. This chosen task , if it is taken without skipping, may
lead them to find their students leak of some particular reading competence, in which the students find themselves difficult to do. It will brake their bad cycle
mentioned before and ease the teacher to help them. 3. For the university :
It supports the university’s culture to use algorithmic reading program, especially in specific reading activity provided. It sounds be a small chair of
furniture in controlling the quality of the reading competence of the students. It
17 will prove the real condition of their competence especially in reading, in which is
a basic one in facing their further and more complicated English learning activity. It will complete their need of better reading strategy to ease them to read more
and write their English Learning Program latter. For example, in a study of university students who were failing their EFL classes, Mason and Krashen
http:benikomason.comarticlesextensive_reading2all.htmlfound that extensive reading helped the students improve their scores on a cloze test. And, of course, it
will encourage the quality of university’s graduations.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURES