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commit to user students will easily brainstorm the ideas and explore the detailed information when reading written text. By applying buzz groups technique, students will learn by themselves, learn more, feel more confident, feel more dedicated, enjoy the class, teach others and become independent learners. They can use their own knowledge and share their knowledge with their friends. Through this technique students can work together in small group to help each other and then join in the larger group whole class discussion. After students discuss in a small group, the teacher asks a spokesperson in each buzz groups to report out to the whole class. Each group can share idea related to the text and its questions which are given by teacher. Considering the benefit of buzz groups technique especially in education and the curriculum of junior high school that emphasizes reading in teaching English, the researcher is interested in conducting an action research in teaching reading by using buzz groups technique.

B. The Problems Statements

Based on the background of the study, the aim of this research is to answer the following questions, namely: 1. Can the use of buzz groups technique improve the students’ reading comprehension at the seventh grade students of SMP N 7 Surakarta? 2. How is the teaching learning process when buzz groups technique is used to impr ove students’ reading comprehension?

C. The Objectives of the Study

In this thesis the writer has two objectives to be achieved as follows: 1. To find out whether or not buzz groups technique can improve students’ reading comprehension at the seventh grade students of SMP N 7 Surakarta. 2. To identify the class situation when buzz group technique is used in reading classroom. commit to user

D. The Benefits of the Study

The writer hopes that the result of this study will have some benefit as follows: 1. For the students This research will enri ch the students’ reading comprehension. They can think and discuss with their friends so they will comprehend the reading text easily and convenient. By using buzz groups technique, the students will be active readers, they can work together group work and it is useful for their socializing and their communicating. The buzz group technique will stimulate the students’ motivation to comprehend English text in reading class. 2. For the teachers a They can use buzz group technique as an alternative technique in teaching reading. b It may give them more understanding and option on how to implement buzz group technique. 3. For the school This study can be used to overcome the problem of teaching reading. Buzz groups technique can be considered to be an effective technique to teach reading and it will enrich teaching technique in this school. 4. For the researcher herself She can get valuable experience which can be used for doing a better action research in the future. commit to user

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