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1.3 Research Problems
This study intends to answer the following questions: 1.
What are the students’ difficulties in learning reading in the class? 2.
Which is more effective CIRC Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition or JIGSAW to teach recount text for the eleventh grader
students of SMA N 1 Pegandon year of 20142015?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
According to the research problems, the objectives of this study can be stated as follows:
By conducting this study, the researcher wants to know the difficulties and problems which are faced by students when they are learning reading in class.by
knowing students’ difficulties, the researcher makes some efforts to reduce it and make students easier to learn reading in class.
The researcher wants to know which is more effective between CIRC and Jigsaw to teach reading especially recount text for eleventh grader students of SMA N 1
Pegandon year of 20142015.
1.5 Significances of the Study
The results of this study are expected to contribute for three aspects, theoretically, practicality, and pedagogically.
In terms of theoretical the results of this study are expected to contribute in the world of education especially in the reading learning process. It gives suggestion
6 to teachers which can be used as an effort to improve the learning process. It is
also as the research contribution in the educational field in the reading learning process in class.
In terms of practicality, the result of this study informs teachers about more appropriate and effective teaching technique to teach reading. Teachers can use
that technique when they teach reading especially recount text to students in class. In terms of pedagogically, the results of this study are expected to become the
guidance for teachers to teach their students in the class especially to teach recount text. They can use cooperative learning technique in order to make
students happier and more comfort in learning process.
1.6 Limitations of the Study
The limitations of this study are as follows: 1
This study is only conducted to the eleventh grader students of SMA N 1 Pegandon in the academic year 20142015.
2 The comparison of CIRC and JIGSAW is only to teach recount text for the
eleventh grader students of SMA N 1 Pegandon in the academic year 20142015.
3 The researcher focuses the study only to see whether or not there is a
student’s improvement of understanding and comprehending the recount text.
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1.7 Outline of the Study
The researcher divided this study into five chapters. They are Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, and Chapter V.
Chapter I is an introduction, it presents background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, research problems, objectives of the study, significances of the
study, limitations of the study, and outline of the study. Chapter II is the review of related literature; it presents previous studies,
theoretical review and framework of the analysis. Chapter III is the method of the study; it presents research design, research object,
research variables, hypotheses, research instruments, method of collecting data, and method of analyzing data.
Chapter IV is an analysis of data and the result discussion. It presents the discussion of the experiment, the test result, the difference gain between pre-test
and post- test of the two groups, T-test result, and the discussion of the research finding.
Chapter V consists of the conclusion and the suggestion. It presents the conclusion and also some suggestions according to the result of the study.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE