1.8 Definition of Terms
In order to comprehend the notions underlying the title of this research, some
terms are clarified:
Narrative text
It refers to the text which tells about past activities or event which concerns on the problematic experience and resolution in order to amuse and even give the moral
messages to the reader. Reading
Reading is bringing and getting meaning from the printed or written materials Finocchiaro and Bonomo, 1973:199
Reading Comprehension
It is defined as an active cognitive process of interacting with print and monitoring comprehension to establish the meaning Silberstine, 1987;
Simanjuntak, 1988:15.
Schema Theory
It refers to a theory of how knowledge is acquired, processed, and retrieved Widdowson, 1983.
CHAPTER II FRAME OF THEORIES
This chapter elaborates theories being used to support the research, it includes concept of reading, aspects of reading, concept of reading comprehension, concept
of narrative text, concept of schema, concept of schema activation, concept of schema activation strategy, teaching reading through schema activation strategy,
the procedure of teaching reading through schema activation strategy using narrative text, theoretical assumption and hypotheses.
2.1 Concept of Reading
Reading is one of the important skills that are needed by the students from
elementary school until university level. By reading the students are able to get a lot of information based on what they have already read. Although generally
people think of reading as a simple, passive process that involves reading words in a linear fashion and internalizing their meaning one at a time, it is actually a very
complex process that acquires a great deal of active participation on the part of the reader.
Reading is stated as an active process, the readers forms a preliminary expectation
about materials, then select the fewest, most productive clues necessary to confirm or reject that expectation Mackay, 1979.
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