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Introduction of 'The Use of Islamic Newspaper Articles to Improve Students' Reading Comprehension

The Use of Islamic Newspaper Articles to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension
Introduction
English is the first foreign language in Indonesia. To have the success life, everyone should have good ability in English, especially for students. One of English skills that students should master is reading. Having good reading skill is very important because reading is a key to improve learning outcome in many field of study (Hamra and Syatriana, 2010). However, reading is difficult to learn. Most students felt under pressure to understand the text that they read. They have difficulty in catching the information. As the result, most of them have low interest in EFL Reading (Cahyono and Widiati, 2007).
There are many factors that can affect students low interest in reading, such as the students prior knowledge of material in reading text (Cahyono and Widiati, 2007), reading strategy (Grabe and Stoller, 2002), and the reading materials that is provided by teacher. Reading materials are important because they are the contents of the learning process and also the media to connect students to the knowledge they require to understand (Zahrina, 2017). Sidek (2011) also put his argument that reading is the foundation of writing. In order to improve students interest, motivation and ability in reading comprehension there should find a way and an appropriate reading materials that is suit to students need (Febriani, 2015). Therefore, the goal of teaching reading can be reached.
On the other hand,  there are no differences English materials that is provided in the religious school compare with other state school. In the religious school, they also used the general book like other school. It would be unfortunate for the students in the religious school if they are not familiar with English Islamic themes in their school.
In the religious school, students are hoped to have Islamic values, including in learning English. The idea of Islamization of knowledge was proposed as the result of the first world conference of Muslim education in Mecca in 1977 (Muhsinin, Rukmini, Saleh, Sofwan, 2017). To have success of this vision, teaching English could be implemented by integrating Islamic values (Munir and Hartono, 2016). Thus, in terms of teaching reading comprehension, using Islamic newspaper articles is considered appropriate. By using this media, students not only enhance their reading comprehension, but also can increase their religiosity.
The Islamic newspaper articles are been to be highly motivational for students of all ages and students enjoy the variety of reading and visual material included in the newspaper (Elmadwi, 2014). Ahmmed (2016) also claimed that Islamic newspaper article is easy to understand because its written clearly and directly and the language used in newspaper is a day to day language. Besides, Islamic newspaper is easy to understand because the information that is provided is based on students prior knowledge so that students can catch the information and the vocabulary which is contain is the real vocabulary. It means that the students familiar with the context because they have learned about their religion since they were children.
Based on the explanation above, the writer would give the Islamic newspaper articles to students as the supplementary reading material so that students’ interest in reading can also be increased. Thus, this study is aimed to improve students’ reading comprehension by using Islamic newspaper Articles. This material is expected to be an alternative solution for teaching reading at the second grade of MAN Kota Bakti.


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