Teaching comprehension using story reading can improve students' performance in English language / Ibrahim Busuni

Understanding comprehension is a process whereby readers takes in speech and holds it in the short-term memory. The readers will then identify the context and its syntax functions in the sentences read. Before the message can be stored in the long-term memory, it has to form into meaningful comprehensible messages. Inability to master reading comprehension, one will not be able to comprehend messages. There will be communication breakdown and little interaction between one another. Reading activity is the important and fundamental of the three skills in English language learning, yet it is the least stressed skills in the classroom language teaching. With story reading, reading skills are being emphasized to the fullest extend. It creates a lively, creative and effective language teaching and learning. It inculcates educational especially English language focus, besides nurturing reading habits and the love for literature. Story reading offers second language learners the opportunity to develop communicative competence, language awareness and the ability to use language skills with accuracy and appropriateness.