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must be memorized. It makes the teacher become the main source in class. It will make speech uses more often and the students become passive. By using CTL in
class, the teacher can overcome that problem. CTL will encourage the students to be more active in class.
Based on the reasons above, the writer designed a set of instructional materials which focuses on reading skill, using Contextual Teaching and Learning
approach to support the teaching learning process.
B. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
A teacher is a person who is responsible for teaching learning process and plays an important role in the class. Therefore, the teacher has a responsibility for
creating elements such as materials, and strategies to deliver the materials to the students that are needed to make the teaching learning process succeed. For the
teacher, teaching sometimes can be difficult for himher. “Creating and applying certain techniques must be done by teachers with certain considerations to achieve
the purpose” Richard Rodgers 1996:15. The materials made by the teacher must enable students to use language in
their daily life. The teacher should prepare all the materials well, so they can be used to help the students increase their skill especially in reading.
C. PROBLEM LIMITATION
The study focuses on how to design a set of English reading materials to teach English. The approach which is used in this design is Contextual Teaching
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and Learning that can make a language teaching and learning activities to be communicative and interesting.
D. PROBLEM FORMULATION
Considering the previous explanation about the background and scope of the study, the problems of the study are formulated as follows:
1. How is a set of English instructional reading materials using Contextual Teaching and Learning for the seventh grade students of Pangudi Luhur I
Junior High School designed? 2. What does the designed set of English reading materials using Contextual
Teaching and Learning for the first grade students of Pangudi Luhur I Junior High School look like?
E. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of this study are: 1. To find out how a set of English reading materials using Contextual Teaching
and Learning for the seventh grade students of Pangudi Luhur I Junior High school is designed.
2. To find out what the designed set of English reading instructional materials using Contextual Teaching and Learning for the seventh grade students of
Pangudi Luhur I Junior High School looks like.
F. BENEFITS OF THE STUDY
