2. Concept of Learning
Learning is a process of change from not knowing to knowing. Particularly, this research discusses the learning process of reading comprehension in English
through herringbone technique. According to Kimble in Brown, learning is acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or
instruction. It is a relatively permanent change in a behavioral tendency and a result of reinforced practice.
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In addition,learning involves activeness, conscious focus on and acting upon events outside or inside the organism, and also some
forms of practices, perhaps reinforced practices. It means that learning is an activity for getting knowledge, skill, and experience about subject learning which
need practice to improve the understanding of its. It can be seen that learning can be defined as change in behavior. This change occurs as a consequence of
experience in some specify situation. The change brought about by developing a new skill and changing attitude.
Based on statement above, it can be concluded that learning is the process of getting knowledge and understand the lesson or the subject.
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H. Douglas Brown,
Loc. Cit
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B. Concept of Reading
There are four skills in English that must be mastered by the students included listening, speaking, reading and writing. Reading is about understanding written
texts. From this definition researcher can describe that purpose of the reading is to get meaning or to understand what the writer has write and we know what writer
wanted.
Furthermore, Harmer states that reading is useful for language acquisition. Provided that students more or less understand what they read, more they read, the
better they get it.
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In addition, Patel and Praveen states that reading is an important activity in life with which one can update hisher knowledge.
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It means that reading has usefulness for providing more understanding in subject learning and it has
important part in life which can update our knowledge.
Reading is a complex process which involves instruction between the reader and language and ideas of the text.
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It means that reading is the good way to catch all of direction between us as the reader with the text. Every text of course has the
ideas so get the idea in the text is a way to know what the text means.
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Jeremy Harmer.
How to Teach English
Cambridge: Longman,2007,p.99
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M. F. Patel, Praveen M. Jain,
English Language Teaching
, Velahall Nagor: Sunrise, 2007, p.113
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Ibid
,p.7
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