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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
This study can be useful for: PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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1. The Junior High School Teachers. The
teachers are expected to be confident and have no difficulties in teaching English using Contextual Teaching and Learning anymore after
learning from the design of this study. 2. Students
Students usually become easily bored and have difficulty since they only have to memorize the lesson without applying it in real life. It can raise
students’ boredom and difficulty. Hopefully, this designed material can increase their motivation to learn English.
3. Other Researchers Hopefully, the result of this study can provide helpful information and give
stimulus for further study. Hence, better and more various reading materials using Contextual Teaching and Learning CTL approach will be found.
G. DEFINITION OF TERMS
There are some definitions that the writer had to clarify in order to make the study understandable, the terms are as follows:
1. Design Design is defined as, “plan to guide education activity in the target situation”
Houle, 1978: 203. In this study, designing means an activity of making some strategies, materials, and teaching-learning activities in the target language.
2. Reading According to Gibson and Levin, reading is extracting information from
text 1979: 5. In this study, reading is the ability to understand
the information from the text or the writer’s message.
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3. Contextual Teaching and Learning Contextual Teaching and Learning CTL helps us relate subject matter
content to real world situations and motivate students to make connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives, family members,
citizens, and workers and engage in the hard work that learning requires Johnson. 2002: 23. In this study, CTL is a strategy which can help students
make connection between language which they have learned and its application.
4. Junior High School Students In Indonesia, Junior High School is called as SMP Sekolah Menengah
Pertama . It is a part of educational line. It is included as a nine-year-basic
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