commit to user what is going on around them so they have an intrinsic educational value. The most
important thing is the students love reading.
C. Discussion
This research is an action research which is implementing directed reading to improve students’ reading comprehension. The results this research was satisfying in
term of: 1 the improvement of students’ reading comprehension; 2 the improvement of classroom situation. Each point is described more detail as flows:
1. the improvement of students’ reading comprehension
Base on the finding is can be theorized that the use of directed reading can improve the students’ reading comprehension. The improvement can be concluded
from their score. Before the implementation of directed reading was low but after implementing directed reading the score was much higher.
As we know that reading always have a purpose and when the directed reading implemented the students’ purpose to comprehend the text is higher and also
directed reading provides familiar the topic those are the reasons why the students are easier to comprehend the text. Comprehension is the process of making sense of
words, sentences and connected text. Reader usually use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, and new experience with text.
Urguhart states any valid account of reading process much consider such cognitive aspect as reading
strategies, inference, memory, relating text to background knowledge, or well as decoding and obvious language aspects as syntax and lexical knowledge 1998: 18
and The goal of reading is comprehension Nunan, 2003: 68 also . Nuttal state that
are some word that relate with the definition of reading, those are understanding, interpreting and meaning sense, decoding, deciphering, identifying, articulating,
speaking and pronouncing 1989: 2. This study analyzed the reading lessons of Champasak University, Laos’
teachers to investigate whether their instructional practices were related to their students’ motivation and reading comprehension scores. The reading lessons of the
teachers were analyzed according to the dimensions of the Motivating Instructional
commit to user Context Inventory. Students subjective reports on their motivation and their teachers’
teaching performance, and their reading comprehension scores were collected. The cultural text showed that students tended to have better reading comprehension scores
when their teachers provided more cognitive support and used more motivating instructional practices to motivate them to read.
2. The improvement of the Classroom Situation
