84 The other students who thought that there was not a specific change
suggested that it might happen as the reading materials given were so many that they would not be able to train themselves well.
g. The improvement of English thinking skills
The exercises which were considered as English thinking skill treatments were scanning, guessing word meaning, topic of conversations, paragraph
pattern and skimming as those activities gave more opportunities to the students in experiencing in the real English context from reading. Since there
was only one student thought it was interesting, the students English thinking skill had not increased yet.
4. Reflection
a. the result of ARP
The facts finding from observation listed the results of the students doing the exercises do not reach the goal in 100 degree of accuracy. It is that way
based on the level of difficulties have stated in the exercises match to the lower level of their linguistic . The result conclusion is as follows :
Number of Meeting
Reading Stage Result
Suggested Activity
First previewing
Near to the goal Need
more practices
predicting Unsuccessfully
done Need
more practices
Second scanning
Successfully done Guessing
word meaning
Unsuccessfully done
Need more
practices Deductive
and inductive thinking
Successfully done Strengthened by
reading habit diary Topic
of Unsuccessfully Need
more
85 conversation
done practices
Topic of
paragraph Successfully done Strengthened
by reading habit diary
Main idea Successfully done Strengthened
by reading habit diary
Third Paragraph pattern
Successfully done Strengthened by
reading habit diary skimming
Successfully done Strengthened by
reading habit diary The first meeting has two reading strategy activities; previewing and
predicting. Previewing exercises are done well, but the students’ comment shows different thing. On the other hand, predicting exercises are considered
difficult by the students as they think that their vocabulary and part of speech mastery problem. The results do not reach the indicators too.
The second meeting has two kinds of result. Those are successfully and unsuccessfully done. The activities considered unsuccessfully done are guessing
word meaning, and topic of conversations. The results and the students’ answer of the interview prove that guessing word is difficult and topic of conversation
is untrained well. The third meeting has two kinds of activity; paragraph pattern and
skimming. The students think that those two activities are easy. Their results are gaining the indicators
b. The strengths of ARP
As discussed above, there are some strengths of ARP. Those are 1 the improvement of students’ reading strategy, especially in scanning, skimming,
inductive-deductive thinking, and paragraph pattern; and 2 the improvement of
86 students’ effective intellectual process which they have tried to do the exercises
step by step through some logical and systematical order.
c. The weaknesses of ARP
