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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents introduction of the research that concludes about the analysis of introduction. It would be started from the analysis of background of study, the
analysis of reason for choosing the topic, the analysis of statements of the problem, the analysis of objective of the study, the analysis of significance of study, the
analysis of limitation of the study, the analysis of hypothesis, and outline of the report.
1.1 Background of the Study
Language as a means of communication is used among human beings in order to establish social relationship. They also can convey their messages, expressing
information, thought, their idea, feeling and developing knowledge, technology and culture by using language. People of many countries in this world use different
languages. Ramelan, 1992: 2 says that language as a means of communication is a system of arbitrary symbols by which human beings cooperate interact using
language, people can express their feeling, ideas, thoughts, and attitudes, toward life and also expectancy to other people, such as when they need someone’s help. It
is, therefore, needed an international language as a means of communication to hold international relationships among those countries and English has been
considered as the international one. For this, it is undeniable that English mastery is
very important for all who need progress. Brumfit 1982 : 2 says that English is an international language in that it is the widest spread medium of international
communication, both because of a number and geographical spread of it native speakers and because of a large number of non native speakers who use it for part
at least of their international contact. Learning English includes four skills. They are correlated one to
another. They are, listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students are expected to master all those skills in balance. As previously stated, one of the
English skills which to be mastered is reading. MacKay in Simanjuntak 1998:15 defines that reading as an active process involving an interaction between thought
and language. Reading will mean dealing with language messages in written or printed form. The relationship between reading and language are, first defines
reading as decoding, as Perfetti 1985 glosses it, the skill of transforming printed words into spoken words. This decoding definition offers some good arguments.
The second answer defines reading as the whole parcel of cognitive activities carried out by the reader in contact with a text. Thus Nuttall 1982, having
considered definitions of reading in terms of reading in terms of reading aloud, or decoding, settles for the extraction of meaning from written message.
While, comprehension is frequently mentioned in cognitive and educational psychology, as well as, of course, the pedagogical literature. A focus
on comprehension is in line with our feeling that this is what reading is ‘about’ i.e. getting information from written texts. And there is no doubt that our monitoring of
our own reading comprehension is of major importance. Sticht 1984 argues that
claims for the possibility of reading much faster than listening rest it on confusion between skimming and scanning on the one hand and reading on the other.
As mentioned above, one of the factors that may influence the successes or failure in reading is the way of teaching. Nowadays, in teachers have a lot of
ways to giving their lesson to students? They use media in teaching language. For example they use magazines. Magazines are a great source of ideas and materials
for teaching and can keep your students interested for hours on a whole range of subjects. So in this study, I want to discuss the learning of English reading
comprehension using science articles in Magazines because it is one of the interesting reading materials that are favored by students. I hoped that the students
will be motivated to learn and read more English materials.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
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