The Result of Pre Interview
Based on the result of pre questionnaire before the implementation of CAR, the writer would like to give some
explanations. The pre questionnaire was conducted on August 24
th
, 2010. Referring to the result of the data, generally it was found that
students still have low motivation in learning reading descriptive text and most of them have difficulties in comprehending the structures of
descriptive text. The result on the questionnaire revealed that from the first
statement 57 13 students did not feel satisfied with their English score and only 43 10 students who feel satisfied. To statement
number 2, only 30 7 students like to learn reading English and 70 16 students did not like to learn English Reading English.
Relating to the statement number 3, 78 18 students said that they did not feel motivated in learning reading descriptive text, it means
that only 22 5 students who feel motivated of the material. For the statement number 4, only 35 8 students can understand reading
descriptive text easily and 65 15 students are hardly to understand. Then for the statement number 5, there are 65 15 students have the
difficulty to understand descriptive text meaningfully and only 35 8 students who didn’t have the difficulty. Next, for the statement
number 6, it showed that only 30 7 students could understand the characteristic of descriptive text. The response for the next statement,
in number 7, showed that 43 10 students could do the exercise was given by the teacher about descriptive text. To the statement number
8, there are 83 19 students didn’t do the exercise individually. Responding to the next statement number 9, showed that 65 15
students do the English exercise in group. The responses to the last statement, number 10, showed that only 13 3 students use
descriptive text in their life and 87 20 students didn’t use it in their life.
Based on the preceding of the result above, it can be conclude that students’ comprehension and students’ motivation in learning
reading English especially descriptive text is still low and there was need for the researcher to implement Contextual Teaching and
Learning in order to improve students’ comprehension and motivation.