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E. Objectives of the Study

This research is aimed at finding out the influences of the teaching detail, this research has the objectives to find out whether: 1. Clustering technique is more effective than direct instruction to teach reading comprehension. 2. The students who have high interest have better reading comprehension than those who have low interest. 3. There is an interaction between teaching technique and interest to teach reading comprehension.

F. Benefits of the Study

The benefits of this study are as follows: 1. Theoretically, this study can support the theories on teaching English reading as a foreign language. 2. Practically, the result of this study will be useful to: a Other teachers. This result will give information to other teacher about through clustering and traditional strategy. Secondly, this study enables other English teacher to create and explore some varieties of teaching reading technique to the students. It will make reading activities more interesting, faster, creative, innovative and always up to date. Finally, this study shows to other teachers that, as English teachers, they should improve their teaching quality to make their class have a greater commit to user 9 interest, motivation, joy, awareness and fruitful journey to explore their own teaching experience, especially reading. b Students. The using of clustering and learning process will surely attract they feel that whatever they study in the classroom is actually useful for their daily life. They think that the classroom situation is interesting and the students can imagine themselves in a situation related to the text but beyond their own experience. Besides, the use of clustering in teaching reading will activate the students to learn. c The institution. This study can be used for MAN I Ponorogo because it provides valuable information for the improvement of teaching reading through clustering. d Other researches. This study can be a reference for further similar studies. e The writer. This study can improve and give her a new experience, build brand-new schemata and knowledge on teaching and learning process. It is functioned as the measurement whether or not she can practice and apply all of the theoretical knowledge to a real class or her own. Besides, it also gives her knowledge of personality, persistence and patience. commit to user 10

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE