Identification of the Problem Limitation of the Problem Statement of the Problem Objective of the Study The Benefit of the Study

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B. Identification of the Problem

Based on the background of study, some problems can be identified, related to students’ reading comprehension. The problems are: 1. What is actually reciprocal teaching technique? 2. What are strategies of reciprocal teaching technique? 3. What is actually reading comprehension? 4. How reciprocal teaching applied in teaching reading comprehension?

C. Limitation of the Problem

This study focuses on improving students’ reading comprehension by using reciprocal teaching technique, which is taught in junior high school.

D. Statement of the Problem

Looking upon the topic, the problems that need to be answered in this research are as follow: 1. Can reciprocal teaching technique improve students’ reading comprehension? 2. What happen when teacher teaches reading comprehension by using reciprocal teaching?

E. Objective of the Study

Several problems have been previously identified. Those are essentially concerning with the students get the difficulties in comprehending English text and the learning process was textbook-oriented. The application of suitable technique then commit to user becomes the priority in teaching so as to help to solve the problems encountered. Therefore, the objective of the study is to find out whether reciprocal teaching technique is effective for improving the students’ reading comprehension at the eighth grade of SMP N I9 Surakarta.

F. The Benefit of the Study

This research hopefully will give some contributions to the process of teaching English. There are some expected benefits of the study for English teacher, students, and other researchers. 1. For the teachers, they know the importance of reciprocal teaching techniques for improving reading comprehension and are able to apply it to student’s reading comprehension. 2. For the students, they can be more skillful in reading English texts because they have been trained how to read effectively by using the strategies of reciprocal teaching procedure. 3. For other researchers, they can use this study to develop the similar study such as listening, speaking, and writing. commit to user

CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW