Schema Theory
The researcher intends to use Schema Theory as a practical support in completing the study, as this theory has a strong relationship between reading and an activity after that, which is comprehending the reading texts. This matches a study by Shuying An (2013) who stated that the theory of Schema is suitable to use in helping students as it is as a guide for them to comprehend the reading texts from the global point of view.
According to Shuying An (2013), the activity of comprehending the text is treated as an interactive process between the previous knowledge of the readers and the text itself. To continue, Seymour (2017) then emphasizes that the efficient comprehension is a result of the ability of the readers to relate the texts they read with their own knowledge. Thus, the researcher could see the strong relation between comprehension and reading. Again, this seems supported by Muhittin Sağirli & Hatice Kadioğlu Ateş (2015) who mentioned that comprehending is a mental basic skill of the reading activity in perceiving printed words, where it will be interpreted with verbal expression within reading. Similarly, based on Fahriany (2014), comprehension is a process of the reader's existing knowledge (schemata) which then is used to interpret texts to understand the context, where readers’ preexisting knowledge on linguistics code and their knowledge of the world (schema) is needed before reading the printed texts.
In fact, reading and comprehension are comprehensively interrelated and need each other to make effective reading and learning. This is as previously stated in Coskun (2002) that reading comprehension is a two in one activity which includes the process of different skills acquisition to suit a connection between words, sentences and paragraphs, comprehension, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and interpretation. This is a cognitive process of getting information, as concerned by Fahriany (2014) that there are many experts in reading and comprehension stating that schema theory is one of the logical theories regarding the process of human information.
