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.

d. The result of Pre-Test

The pretest was conducted on Thursday, August 26 th 2010. In pretest, the students assigned to answer the question based on descriptive text. The test consists of 20 questions in multiple choice and the students have done for 30 minutes. Based on the result of the pre test, the data showed that the mean score of pretest was 55.21. There were only three students or 13.04 of the students who pass the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM meanwhile the other 20 students did not pass that criterion. The lowest achievement gained score 40. From that analyzing, it could be seen that almost of VIII- 3 class students’ comprehension of descriptive text was still very low.

2. Findings of the First Cycle

a. Planning

In this phase, the writer and the teacher made a planning for the action based upon the problems faced by students toward reading skill. In this case, the writer determined selected material and exercises to students. Moreover, the writer chooses descriptive text as the text to be delivered for students in which it was needed to break down into specific material. In lesson plan, she prepared some descriptive text. It is line with the writer’s technique used. Beside lesson plan, the writer prepared unstructured observation sheet to observe the students’ and the teacher activities in teaching and learning process and also prepare posttest 1 in order to know

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