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1. Planning
After knowing the problems from the preliminary observation, the researcher planned some activities to solve the problems. They are sharing ideas
with collaborator, designing lesson plan, and preparing materials. The researcher shared ideas with her collaborator related to the activities that could be applied in
cycle 1. After the discussion, the researcher and the collaborator agreed to use Peer tutoring technique to improve students’ reading comprehension since this
technique allowed the students to be more active in the classroom and they would work in pairs to help one another learn the material being studied. This technique
gives both students the opportunity to better understand it. Meanwhile, before applying peer tutoring technique, the researcher would give a model how to find
main idea, find detail, draw inferences, and predict word meaning. Next, the researcher, helped by the collaborator, designed lesson plan.
Lesson plan described how to apply peer tutoring in the classroom. There were some steps in peer tutoring. They were as follows: 1 Putting students together
into different pairs or dyads, 2 Asking the students to tutor their tutee on main idea, details, word meanings, and inference questions, 3 Asking the students to
give feedback or error correction, 4 Monitoring or going around the classroom to help the students if the tutors get stuck on a question or on preparing tutoring
materials, 5 Having the students switch roles tutor and tutee, and 6 Asking the students to present the result of peer tutoring. In addition, the researcher also
asked her collaborator to observe the whole activities of teaching and learning process and to give suggestion and advices for better results.
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the students were too long and too difficult, the researcher in agreement with the collaborator replaced the materials into more interesting and easier texts that was
report texts. Also, the content of the materials which the researcher chose was new information for the students so that they were interested to read and comprehend
the texts given. The materials were listed as follows: 1 Tiger, 2 Postponing Death, 3 The Treasure Hunt, and 4 Suntan and Society.
2. Acting