General Background of the Study
because Indonesian students have mastered the vocabulary and the structure of the Indonesian language. Reading English text is difficult for them. Sometimes, after
reading a text, a student does not know what topic of the text is. He is unable to understand the paragraph he has read. The classroom teacher should be an
observer to her students so she can follow the reading ability of them. In the English learning process, methods and techniques are very important.
Many kinds of approaches, techniques and methods have been done to improve English reading ability. However, there are no best methods because every
method has it own strengths and weaknesses. Besides, the success of a technique is based on various factors, such as the learning purpose, the number of students
in a classroom, the atmosphere, and the students
society. By knowing this unsatisfactory fact, the Indonesian government has made changes in the educational system in Indonesia, especially for the curriculum.
Learning English as foreign language requires many factors which influence students
Third, this result of the study may serve as the information for teachers that there are some problems in implementing the planned learning and teaching
process of reading comprehension on the eighth grade of Junior High School students.