Abstract:
The main part of learning a language is the language skill. In learning English, the
students will learn four language skills, namely: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Reading is considered as an important aspect in language learning, reading is a process of
decoding message which readers own experience and knowledge. In teaching learning process,
reading is a must for students in adding knowledge.Without having reading skill, it will be
useless for the student to follow the class and they will be lack of knowledge.The problem that
the writer intends to discuss in this paper is concerned with the reading ability of the
second year students of MAN 1 Pekanbaru. The observation and interview which were
conducted in pre research showed that the English text is difficult to be understood by the
students for they did not have a sufficient reading skill to comprehend the texts. It is happened
because the students are lack of enthusiasm in involving themselves in the English lesson and
lack of vocabularies that make them difficult in interpreting and understanding the message of
the text. To solve the problem, the teacher should improve her teaching technique from the old
method to the new one. Steven & Slavin (1995) mention that problem of reading can be solved by
doing Cooperative Integrated Reading and composition (CIRC). The reason for choosing the
method because, it could help the teachers to create a very good way in teaching English.
The teacher should utilize a teaching method that is attracting to teach reading. Which
includes materials, comfortable environment, self-confidence teachers, etc. In other words, the
better the teachers in using this strategy, the more interest the students in reading subject.
