ANALYZING NOUN PHRASE AS AN ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY: Contributing for Understanding English Islamic Text in English Reading Course of STAIN Kudus

Abstract

Reading comprehension is one of the objectives of English teaching as general English courses in STAIN Kudus. This is in line with the syllabus determined by all of faculties of STAIN Kudus. It states that English which is focus on reading comprehension is oriented to enable students to comprehend English written text. The researcher finds that the students of STAIN Kudus have difficulties in getting the message of the English reading text. They still think Indonesian patterns when they are understanding English text. Structure is one of fundamental building blocks in understanding the English reading text. A text consists of more than one sentence. The first step in understanding a sentence is to locate subject and predicate. Phrase is a group of words that have function as Subject (S), Predicate (P), and Object (O) in the sentence. Therefore, one of the ways to understand a text is mastering how to analyze phrases.