SQ3R TECHNIQUE

Every language has its own system of meaningful arrangement of word and form in speech that is significantly different from any other languages. Anyone who wants to learn a language should learn many systems of the language.
Language plays an important role in human communication. It is used as a means of communication among the nations within the people in their daily life formal or informal at home, at school, offices, in the street, etc.
English as one of the most widely used language in the world. As an International language, English is studied by many educated people in the different countries. English is taught to make students understand and use the language at most schools of the countries. This is reasonable since many scientific books and other library resources are written in English.
In learning English, there are four language skills which must be understood by the students through the activities of learning and teaching process of English at the Senior High School. The skill are, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. So to be able to master the four language skills, we should also have the ability to handle the aspect found in English, for example, grammar and structure, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.
One of the most important skills from the fourth skills mentioned above is reading. Reading as one of four language skills plays a very important role everyone want to enlarge their knowledge. By reading the scientific or unscientific books one will be able to know theories, concepts, models, and the like.
Reading is extracting information from text or the printed page, the combination of text and pictures, diagrams, graphs, illustrated, instruction and others. Reading has been decided as one of the language skills, which needs to be given more emphasis in the learning of English in Indonesia.
According to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1993), reading is defined as a process of understanding the meaning and grasping the full serve of such mental formulation either with or without vocal reproduction. It is a process of communication in which symbol are used to translate ideas and information into meaning.
Based on KTSP (contextual teaching and learning), one of reading fundamental competence is “to respond the meaning of the text accurately and fluently related to the condition”. Therefore, to get the curriculum target the students would be master the reading fundamental competence.
According to Boer and Dallman (1960:2) the ability to read one is of great practical value to everyone. It is known that reading is process which everyone’s minds translate the printed symbols into ideas that the author is trying to tell or communicate to her or him.
Unfortunately many students do not read well. One problem is that they do not master lexical items. Therefore, the most important thing is how to get the main idea of the text quickly and able to answer some questions be easily. The other problems which faced by students is the examination (UAN/UAS). The questions of English subject usually contain of some the kinds of the text. So if the students do not prepare yet, how to get information quickly it will make them be difficult to answer the questions.
The students face difficulties in reading if they do not have any background knowledge of reading skill. Regarding to Glendinning and Holmstrom (1992), as quoted by Eva Ritayani thesis (2008:1), “Study reading aims to develop the reading skills you need to find information quickly, to identify what is important information in a text and to compare different sources of information”.
Sumardi (1975:20) also states “The success of failure of the teaching language program is often evaluated from the method used by teacher, because it is the method that determines that material and the way of teaching a language”. This statement emphasizes that using the method is an important key toward a successful teaching. The writer has chosen the discuss one aspect of English teaching learning that deals with teaching reading for students at Senior High School.
Teaching reading can be presented by using some methods. The use of methods or techniques is to make the students easy to understand the text. In other word, reading skill is important because it can help the students get a lot of information about many things and understood it.
In teaching reading the teachers would provide the students with the purpose for reading to anticipate the different type of text which are stimulating their interest and do not have an over familiar content.
The writer wants to introduce SQ3R technique in study reading in order to make reading is interesting work not reading is boring. Then the writer hopes by applying SQ3R technique, reading do not need translation if everyone wants to get information. Sometime everyone must translate the material if want to remain the contains of the text but by using SQ3R technique can help to remain what we have read easy.
SQ3R technique is one of some techniques to teach reading skill for the students. One effective series of procedure for approaching the reading text has come to be labeled the SQ3R technique, a process consisting of the following five steps are, Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review. It is designed to help students use study skills and strategies and it effective used to help the students prepare to follow the national examination when the students must answer the questions in the limitation of the time.
Teaching reading by using SQ3R technique according to linguist has many advantages. It helps the students to increase their skill in reading by follow the three steps, the first read, recite, and the end is the review. It can give the way to the students to remain what the information have read from the text, because this technique has recite (when the recite process, that the students do re-process by read and understand of the text through oral or written language). Here, the students will know what the point or the important information has gotten after read.
But sometimes the students are difficult to understand about meaning of words and reading comprehension yet. Almost all aspects about reading include in our English education, reading is something that the students must learn how to get information quickly, by SQ3R technique the students are trained as often as possible by following five steps. The writer tries to choose the title for this study is increasing the students ability in reading skill by using SQ3R technique.