could be seen from these five indicators: 1 Finding the meanings of the underlined words in the reading text accompanied by pictures in series. 2 Reading the narrative
text accompanied by picture in series. 3 Making notes while the teacher reviewing the material accompanied by pictures in series. 4 Doing reading exercises
accompanied by using pictures in series. 5 Drawing conclusion about the reading text accompanied by pictures in series. Those activities were observed by the
observer while teaching and learning process. The researcher moved around with an observation checklist to check whether the students did those activities or not.
3.5 Data Collection Methods
There were four kinds of data collection method required in this research. They were a reading test, observation, interview and documentation. Each point is explained
in the following parts.
3.5.1 Reading Test
A reading test was used to obtain the primary data. A test is an instrument that presents a set of techniques, procedures, or items that can be used to measure a person
ability, knowledge, or performance in certain area Brown, 2004:3. In addition, Arikunto 2006:150 defines a test as a set of questions or exercises used to measure
skill, intelligence, ability or aptitude of an individual or a group. Based on those ideas, it could be concluded that a test was an instrument used to assess the students’ ability
based on the standard required. Dealing with the test, Hughes 2003:11 classifies test into four types. They are
Proficiency Test, Diagnostic Test, Placement test, and Achievement Test. For this research, the researcher used an Achievement Test. According to Hughes 2003:13
the purpose of Achievement Test is to measure how successful the individual students have achieved the goal of teaching and learning process. Thus, the purpose of
conducting an Achievement Test in this research was to measure the students’ reading
comprehension achievement that covered word comprehension, sentences
comprehension, paragraph comprehension, and text comprehension. Based on the scoring system, a test can be classified into two kinds, they are
objective test and subjective test Heaton, 1991:25. In this case, the researcher used an objective test in the form of multiple choice and true false. It was chosen because it
seemed to be efficient. According to Heaton 1991:25, an objective test has only one correct answer and it can be scored mechanically. Thus, it was easy to score an
objective test. The reading comprehension test was given at the end of the cycle. There were
20 items which covered 5 word comprehension questions, 5 sentence comprehension, 5 paragraph comprehension, and 5 text comprehension. 10 items were in the form of
True-False and 10 items were in the form of Multiple-Choices. The score of each item in True-False was 4 points and the score of each item in Multiple Choices was 6, so
that the total score of the test items was 100. The time allocation given for doing the test items was 60 minutes.
3.5.2 Observation
