Background of The Pictures Series on Reading Skill - Students belief

It cannot be denied that mastering a foreign language such as English is very important. In fact, English is widely used as a means of communication in the world. Since many scientific books are written in English, it is important to learn this language to improve our knowledge. Regarding the important of English, in Indonesia, it has been taught at the formal school. The government of Indonesia has put English as a compulsory subject for the students from elementary school until university level. 

In the English teaching learning, reading is the one important way to improve students’ general language skills. In reading English texts the students should understand what they have read. In other words, understanding what has been read is reading skill. It means that, after students read the texts, students can understand the whole meaning that appear from the texts. Without reading the students would not be able to acquire knowledge that is fundamental in students’ intellectual growth. Reading skills is an enable readers to turn writing into meaning and achieve the goals of independence,comprehension, and fluency.

So many students are visual learners.  Students love reading picture series, and there is a reason for that.  As students get older, teacher tends to teach skills using isolated passages but taking a look at it visually with no text is invaluable to some students who need to learn a different way. It is easy differentiation. Using pictures series almost always requires students to generate their own ideas rather than answer a multiple choice question or put a sequence of events in order.  The options are limitless with pictures series that can have students do a most basic task within the skill or can get highly complex, involving inferences, predictions, schema, etc.

The most of the students feel bored with the method that applied lately. And finally they assume that the teaching of reading is not so important to be taught. Fact has been proved that the teaching of reading is filled with theory only and practice rarely use. Actually, here is a way that is easy to apply in the classroom and unfortunately still rarely used in this way. Students’ belief that using picture series they will be more active and able to listen and respond to the content of the story fully read. Picture series is a fun way of teaching reading because this can make students feel comfortable and understand the meaning of the story. Not only that, picture series also help students follow the story line well and arranged as in the story has been supplied image contextual story. The students are believed to used the picture series will help them to hone their reading skills and increase their interesting.