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CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Literature is as
a basic component and source of authentic texts of the language curriculum. Some discussion have been done in how
literature and EFL instruction can work together and interact for the benefit
of students and teachers in improving reading comprehension. According to Saga
(1987:1) stated that many teachers consider the use of literature in
language teaching as an interesting and worthy concern.
Literature is useful in teaching reading. One of literary text that is always is
used in teaching reading for young and adult learners namely fairy tale. Reading is one of important skills in learning. Reading
is important because it can help the students to gain information such as
general knowledge. Through reading students can improve their own knowledge
which is needed to ensure the continuing personal growth and adapt the change
in the world. But it is not always possible to teach reading English text in a
way that all students will both be fun and enjoyment. However, the teacher
should do his best in order to reach as much supportive learning environment in
the classroom as possible. Using
fairy tales in the language classroom with learners” starts to consider fairy
tales as one of the possible supplementary teaching materials with the learners.
Working
with fairy tales may contribute to such classroom atmosphere with a great deal
and fairy tale is one kind of
literary work that literature is as a basic component and source of
authentic texts of the language curriculum.
According to the past researches, there
were some problems that were found in reading and short observation that is
done by the writer. The young learners and adult learners in EFL classroom face
many problems in learning English especially in reading text. They have to
spend a long time to read the text but feel difficult to understand the main
point of it. Moreover most of them think if reading is boring activity.
Based
on problem that happened toward the EFL learners in reading text, the writer
introduces fairy tale in teaching reading that is expected to overcome the
problems in EFL classroom. Using fairy tale in teaching reading is expected to gain
the interest for reading and also self confident for them. The overall aim of
diploma paper is to show benefits of fairy tales for the reading comprehension
of young and adult learners that not only within the “walls” of school
classroom but in their lives as well. According to Ziolkowski (2009:3),
fairy tale is one of the few literary genres shared by people of all ages and
social classes. Hopefully,
the usage of fairy tales in English lessons will help the young and adult
learners in reading comprehension and also to appreciate the literature of target
language and build up positive attitude towards literature in general.
So the writer of this paper interested to write the paper about “The
Use of Fairy Tale to Enhance the Reading Comprehension of Young and Adult
Learners in EFL Classroom”
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