The Purposes of Directed Reading-Thinking Activity

E. Teaching Reading Narrative Text Using Directed Reading-Thinking Activity DR-TA Strategy

First : The teacher determines the narrative text to be used and pre-select points for students to pause during the reading process. There should be 4-5 pauses or adjusted to the quantity of paragraphs in narrative text. Second : The teacher asks the student to read only the title of the narrative text and then asks students to make predictions what the story tells about. The teacher may use these questions: “What do you think a passage with title like this might be about?”; “Why do you think so?” and so on. Third : The teacher lists the predictions on whiteboard and initiates a discussion with the students by asking them to respond to the following question: “Which of these predictions do you think would be likely one?”; “Why do you think this prediction is a good one?” and so on. Fourth : The teacher asks the students to read the story until the pause point only. The teacher may use these questions: “Now, what do you think?” or “Any other ideas?” Fifth : The teacher asks the students to continue their reading until the next pause point this step is repeated until the students have finished reading the story. The teacher may use these questions: “Were your predictions correct?”; “What do you think now?”; “What else?”; “What will happen next?”; “What made you think of this prediction?”; “What in the passage supports this prediction?” Sixth : The teacher asks the students to finish reading the story and reflect their predictions through responding to the following questions: “What predictions did you make?”; “Were your predictions correct?”; “Do you still agree with this prediction?”; “What did you find in the text to prove your prediction?”; “What did you read in the text that made you change your predictions?”

F. Previous Related Studies

The first study was conducted by Talal Abd Al-Hameed Al Odwan from The World Islamic Sciences and Education University Amman, Jordan. His research title is The Effect of the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity through Cooperative Learning on English Secondary Stage Students’ Reading Comprehension in Jordan. He conducted his research to two classes; experimental group consist of 22 students and 20 students in control group. The DR-TA through using cooperative learning is designed to teach four units to the experimental group. The result of his research; there is a statistically significant difference in reading comprehension in favor of the experimental group among English secondary stage students in Jordan due to the instructional strategy. 43 The second study was conducted by Muhtatimatul Halimah in her study entitled The Effectiveness of Using Directed Reading-Thinking Activity Strategy to Improve the Students’ Ability in Finding Main Idea and Word Meaning of the Eleventh Grade Students of MAN Kutowinangun. The subjects of the study consisted of 58 students which are divided into experimental group class XI.IPS1, 29 students and control group class XI.IPS4, 29 students. The result of her research is using directed reading thinking activity is effective to improve the students’ ability in finding main idea and word meaning. 44 The third study was conducted by Teguh Satrio Hermawan in his skripsi entitled Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text by Using Directed Reading-Thinking Activity A Classroom Action Research in the First Year of SMA Muhammadiyah 25 Pamulang. The subjects of the study were students of X-1. There were 28 students. At the end, the result showed that the application of DR-TA the students were more active and interested in learning reading activity in the classroom. There are 2 students passing the minimal level 43 Talal Abd Al-Hameed Al Odwan, The Effect of the Directed Reading Thinking Activity through Cooperative Learning on English Secondary Stage Students’ Reading Comprehension in Jordan, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 16, Centre for Promoting Ideas: USA, August 2012. 44 Muhtatimatul Halimah, The Effectiveness Of Using Directed Reading Thinking Activity Strategy To Improve The Students’ Ability In Finding Main Idea And Word Meaning Of The Eleventh Grade Students Of Man Kutowinangun, Thesis at Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo, 2013.