1.7 Significance of the Study
The result of the study is expected to be able to give useful contribution to English teaching, especially:
1 The Senior High School students can improve their reading comprehension skills, especially in reading hortatory exposition texts.
2 The teacher can use paraphrasing as an alternative technique in teaching reading comprehension to Senior High School students.
3 The writer gets an experience of using paraphrasing in teaching reading comprehension to Senior High School students. Therefore, this research can
improve the writer’s skill in teaching. 4 The readers can obtain certain understanding about the application of using
paraphrasing in teaching reading comprehension to Senior High School students.
1.8 Limitation of the Study
The writer conducts the study to the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun in the academic year of 20102011. In this study, the
writer limits the discussion on the use of paraphrasing in improving the eleventh grade of Senior High School students’ reading comprehension skills of hortatory
exposition text.
1.9 Outline of the Report
In this final project the outline of the report will be divided into five chapters.
Chapter I is the introduction. This chapter consists of background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, research question, hypotheses, objectives of
the study, variable, significance of the study, limitation of the study and outline of the report.
Chapter II is review of related literature that discusses teaching and learning English as a foreign language, general concept of reading, reading
comprehension, reading technique, definition of paraphrase, how to paraphrase, the need of paraphrasing in reading comprehension, teaching reading by using
paraphrasing, hortatory exposition text, the characteristics of Senior High School students, teaching reading, and goals of teaching reading.
Chapter III deals with research method that discusses experimental research, research design, subject of the research population and sample,
variable, instrument for collecting data, data collecting, data analysis and method of data analysis.
This chapter presents the result of the research, including the result of try- out, pre-test, and post-test, normality of pre-test and post-test data, the difference
between two means of pre-test and post-test, test of significance, and the discussion of the result.
Chapter V is the last chapter. This chapter contains the conclusion and suggestion.
CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter discusses teaching and learning English as a foreign language, general concept of reading, reading comprehension, reading technique,
definition of paraphrase, how to paraphrase, the need of paraphrasing in reading comprehension, teaching reading by using paraphrasing, hortatory exposition text,
the characteristics of Senior High School students, teaching reading, and goals of teaching reading.
2.1 Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language
2.1.1 Foreign Language Teaching
It has already been known that it is not easy to master a foreign language. There are many factors that may affect it. One of them is the teacher. It is clear
because the teachers play a very important role in the language learning process. In teaching, a teacher should have an objective. The common objective of
teaching a foreign language is to make learners able to communicate by using foreign language both spoken and written.
Teaching a language, especially a foreign language is not an easy task. Since English is a foreign language for Indonesian students, it will surely cause
some problems for them. Ramelan 1992: 1 states that, teaching English in Indonesia is teaching a language to students whose native language is quite
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