Problem Identification Teaching Reading Skill through Paraphrasing and Summarizing at the Second Grade of Senior High School Pembangunan 1 Bogor

6 Reading is not only pronouncing the word loudly but also understanding taken into consideration. As Christinc Nuttal said “it is unlikely that you were interested in pronounciation of what you read except in a tiny minority of cases, and it is even likely that you were intersted in the grammatical structures used. You read because you wanted to get something from the writing : facts, ideas, enjoyment, even feelings or family community from letter : what ever it was, you wanted to get message that the writer had expressed”. 9 Farrel stated that ”Reading is also considered as a process of constructing meaning through dynamic interaction among the existing knowledge, the information suggested by the written language, and the context of the reading situation”. 10 Based on those definitions above, it can be concluded that reading is the ability to understand the meaning from written langguage and it requires any other aspects such as word recognition and pronunciation.

2. The purpose of reading skill

When people read, they read for purpose. They may read to understand reading for full comprehension, and to get the general idea, or to find the part that contains the information. A person may read for many purposes. If he is reading for pleasure, he may read either quickly or slowly based on the way he likes or feels. But if he is reading for information such as news, science or some line which are parts of his study or assignment it does slowly and carrefully. If a person wants to note an address, a phone number, a date or book paragraph in order to locate a special piece of information, is called scanning. But if he neds all the passage in order to know about what it deals about his reading is called skimming. 11 As Harris and Smith stated that “ purpose for reading are similar for the beginner and the mature reader. The level of thought that is required to achieve 9 Christine Nuttal, Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language, London : Heineman, 1982 , p. 3 Farrel, Planning Lesson for A Reading class, RELC Potrfolio Series 6, Singapore: Regional Language Center,2002.p.1 11 Christinc Nuttal, Teaching Reading in a Foreign Language, Oxford : Heineman Educational Book ltd, 1989, p. 36