Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Name : cut delima salim student no. : 0706102020052 study program : english education thesis title : teaching reading to junior high school students by using context clues technique although english is a subject that should be learned by the students in school, students still find some difficulties especially in reading comprehension. there are three problems that influence students' reading comprehension. the first is students' vocabulary development, the second is students' sentence construction, and the third is students' background knowledge. one of the ways which can solve them is by using context clues technique. the objective of this study is to analyze deeply some related theories and/or research findings on how context clues technique can solve student's problem in reading comprehension. to find the data needed. the writer did a library research. based on the data, it proved that context clues can solve students' problem in comprehending a text. the students guess words and sentences' meaning based on the context. then, they also use their background knowledge in getting the whole text' ideas. teacher uses context clues technique to reduce the student's dependence in asking to others and using dictionary because it could waste time. in other words, using context clues technique has been proven as a better way in teaching reading comprehension.