By Dinar Vincy Yunitaka Bahrudin
Reading is one
skill from the fourth skill of language learning which also plays a very
important role in transferring information. Realizing the importance of reading
for English foreign language students, it is then very crucial for English
foreign language students to have good reading proficiency.
Being
good in reading, the readers must be good in constructing the meaning to gain
the message well. It means that the reader having the ability to understand
written statements or any type of written text accurately and efficiently. If
there are some problems happened in reading process such as vocabulary
difficulty and learners knowledge, it can make reading process especially for
the readers difficult. They will have problem in understanding the information
from the text which they read. It is in line with Martha (2005, p. 30)
statement that reading is the act of constructing meaning while transacting
with text. While Louis (2005, p. 30) argued that the notion of transaction:
Based
on the description above, to understand the meaning, it focuses on the reader,
rather than on the text or the author as the central element of the process and
how it emphasizes individual construction of meaning while accounting for
socially negotiated meaning construction and the constantly envolving discourse of the reading content
and event. To get the meaning, the reader as a creator rather than receiver of
meaning. The reader makes meaning through the combination of prior knowledge
and their previous experience or information in the text. He or she takes in
relationship of the text and immediate, remembered or anticipated social
interaction and communication.
In
addition, reading process especially for foreign language, there will often be
gap in understanding the message which happened to the reader. In some cases,
the gaps will be just small parts of what they read, in some text which include
several difficult words or vocabulary, but in other cases the gaps will from a
significant proportion of their knowledge, and in more extreme cases, the
reader have no idea and have big misunderstanding about the content of the text.
Those problems of course give an impact on the reading process.
The
process of constructing meaning while transacting with text can run well if the
reader have a good skill. In this situation means that the reader rich of vocabulary
have good background knowledge, have a lot
of information and experience. As a result, the reader also needs to develop
their skill. It is important for reader to help them to understand what the
message of the text is and also to get the meaning.
In
delivering the message or information is need media. The used of media
especially in reading comprehension in order to delivered message or
information is still used since many years before. It is use in order to make
students easier in reading or to make reading not become a frightening class
anymore. The media used by the school between old school and modern school are
different. Media used in old school was an ancient media or old media which is
rarely used now. Recently, many
schools use media to train their learners’ skill in foreign language teaching.
For example the used of multimedia room or library to support their teaching
learning process. The newest media used in teaching learning process is Digital
Library (DL).
The
increasing of high technology in this global era gives an impact for humans
life. Not only in humans’ life but that condition happened in education too.
Education for better life is very important to produce students with good
quality. The use of high technology
that explained before can support teaching learning process such as computer
which can help students more easy to get information related with their study.
Nowadays, there are many library try to use digital library as part of newest
service system in anticipating global information. Moving from a hands-on,
real-life learning experience of substance to a digital version of it presents
many interesting challenges. Depending on what the goals are, several models
are possible. For example, one goal might be to replicate the learning process
with the aid of technology, recreating the learning experience using a
computer. A very different goal might deal with capturing knowledge about the
experience itself, so that it can be replicated either in its real-life form or
using technology. In both cases, the suggestion is that there are ways of
moving knowledge, experience, information and content from conceptual and
physical forms to digital representations.
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