DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION AND SPEAIflNG ABILITY THROUGH SAY SOMETHING STRATEGY

Abstract

All of English skills cannot be separated each other. Integrating one skill to others is needed to avoid a skill gap. Based on the previous research, reading and speaking skills have high relationship in teaching and learning English. By reading, the students ian acquire the vocabulary as the most important thing in speaking. The inrportance ofvocabulary knowledge is to facilitate the speaking. In vice versa, the authentic reading text can be expressed through speaking to help the comprehension of the students. They can comprehend the authentic reading text in many ways. One of the ways is through saying something about what they have read. The procedure of say something strategy are making a prediction, asking question, clasifying misunderstood part making a comment, and making a connection. All of procedures give the students a chance to think and comprehend what they are reading before doing interactive speaking in a group. Therefore, literature study was used to know whether say sornething strategy can be an integrated strategy which is potential to develop the reading comprehension and speaking ability. This article focuses on how say something strategy relates to develop reading comprehension and finally how it contributes to speaking ability.