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In reading, the readers have to get the impression about text they read. The readers able to extract something specific, something that interest him of her.
Since it is a crucial mater in learning foreign language, teacher should provide suitable texts, activities, and a teacher should be selective in choosing a teaching
method. The teacher can create the reading habit by offering enjoyable learning for the students. In this case, the writer decide using alternative method. The
writer use Directed Reading-Thinking Activity method that is benefit for learning.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
The writer chooses the topic due to some reasons: 1. It is significant topic that teachers use method or approach to teach reading.
2. The student’s mastery in reading narrative text considered to be very important. 3. The writer wants to know whether use of Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
method is more significance than conventional method in reading narrative text.
1.3 Statements of the Problem
In order to focus the discussion on the topic, the problems that the writer wants to discuss in this final project are:
1 Is there any significant difference in students’ reading narrative text on the eighth graders students of SMP N 19 Semarang in the academic year
20102011 between students taught using DR-TA method and those taught conventional method?
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2 To what extent does the teaching learning process by using DR-TA Method give contribution to improve students’ skill in reading narrative text?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
In order to focus the discussion on the topic, the objectives that the writer wants to discuss in this final project are:
1 To find out whether any significant difference in students’ reading narrative text on the eighth graders students of SMP N 19 Semarang in the academic
year 20102011 between students taught using DR-TA method and those taught conventional method.
2 To know the improvement of students’ skill in reading narrative text after participating in teaching learning process by using DR-TA Method.
1.5 Significance of the Study
The result of the study will hopefully provide some advantages as follow: 1 For teachers
Teacher can use the result of this study will give contribution for teachers to improve their teaching method in order to make an interesting, interactive, and
effective classroom during teaching and learning process. Hopefully, the teacher can apply the method in their teachings. And finally they can achieve the
objective of teaching will make efforts to find out the way to solve students’ problem especially in reading narrative text.
2 For researcher Researcher can use the result of the study for their reference at they conduct
a research on the same topic.
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1.6 Limitation of the Study
