17 in charge of their own and their teammates’ learning and they have to give
contribution for the team. Three is abundant verbal, face to face interaction so that the students can explain, argue, elaborate and link current material with previous
material. Four is adequate social skill, involving an explicit teaching of appropriate leadership, communication, trust and conflict resolution skills so that
the team works effectively. Five is team reflection, the team has to assess what they have learned, how well they have worked together and how they will make it
better.
6. KTSP
a. The Nature of KTSP KTSP is developed based on the needs, characteristics and potentials in
every region. Every region is given the authority to develop its curriculum so that the educational institutions can decide, control and be responsible for the
curriculum. KTSP system also has full authority and responsibility in each school. The development of the curriculum is prepared by the teacher,
headmaster and school committee. b. The purpose of KTSP
The general purpose of KTSP is to support the educational institutions in developing the curriculum. They have authority to develop the curriculum
autonomously. There are also some specific purposes of KTSP, as follows: 1 To increase the quality of education in Indonesia by giving autonomous to the
educational institutions in developing the curriculum, organizing and empowering the potentials.
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18 2 To increase the concern of school citizen to develop the curriculum
3 To increase the competition
7. Learners’ Characteristic
Knowing the learners’ characteristic is very important because the teacher can decide the appropriate methods and materials which are used to teach the
students. The participants are students of senior high school grade X. They are 15 to 16 years old. According to Hurlock 1980, those students belong to
adolescence. In their stage, adolescences are able to describe and discuss such
abstractions as love, justice and freedom. Moreover, adolescences become more skilled in social perpective-taking, understand person’s point of view and level of
knowledge, and speak accordingly Papalia, Olds, Feldman, 2004: 405. Based on that theory, the researcher believes that Cooperative Integrated
Reading and Composition CIRC is the right method which is used to teach reading in grade X. Besides, according to Erikson’s stage of personal and social
development, in that stage, the students like to work with their friends: peer group.
B. Theoretical Framework
