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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents the research findings and discussion based on the analysis of the data collected from the implementation of using Student Team
Achievement Division STAD to develop reading ability at VIII-6 class of SMPN 17 Tangerang Selatan academic year 20102011.
A. The Description of Data 1.
Findings of the Preliminary Study
There are three parts related to preliminary study. Those are pre- observation, pre-interview, and pre-test. Those explanations as following:
a. The Result of Pre Observation
Pre-observation was conducted to observe the process of teaching learning in reading activity before implementing the action. It was held
on 20th to 29th September 2010 at VIII-6 class of SMPN 17 Tangerang Selatan academic year 20102011. There consisted of 35 students in the
class. In general, during the teaching learning process in the classroom, the teacher liked to dominate the class. Therefore, there was less
opportunity for students to be active in the class. Next, the teacher merely asked the students to read orally the text then they had to
translate in the passage and finding the difficult words than traslating
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whole passage into Bahasa Indonesia. After that, the students performed their works in front of the class to read that translation had been made.
When the teacher asked students to perform in front of the class, they seemed not to have motivation moreover most of them were hardly to
finish the task. In other words, they could not finish the work on time and the teacher often ignored that behavior. Instead, he asked students
to continue the task at home. The students also tended to be lazy to do the assignment individually, so they decided to cheat to their friend.
b. The Result of Pre Interview
Pre interview conducted in this study was the unstructured interview. It was held on Monday 4th Oktober 2010, started at 09.00
A.M and finished at 10.00 A.M. The writer asked to the teacher some questions which divided into three categories. Those were the general
condition in English class primarily on students’ reading achievement and performance, the difficulties faced by students in reading ability to
comprehend the text, and the kinds of strategies implemented by the teacher previously before Classroom Action Research CAR in solving
the students’ difficulties in reading ability. First category discussed about the general condition in English
class primarily on students’ reading achievement of the test and students’ reading activities. The teacher said that most of students who
did not like English class; they gained low competence in English. Besides, they still faced obstacle in following the English lesson. They
thought English as a complicated then considered that reading as the most difficult one in learning English primarily on VIII-6 class which
derived the lowest score of reading test among the other second grade classes. Moreover, the teacher stated that most of them were hardly to
pass the Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM concerning the school policy.
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The second category discussed about the students’ difficulties in reading. It related to their difficulties in grasping the author’s
message within a text. The teacher mentioned the difficulties for some students VIII-6 class in reading skill because students are unable to
comprehend the reading materials in the text; they only guess the meaning on the text. Next, they got noisy while reading because they
did not understand and they thought it was a kind of boring activity. Based on those phenomenons
of students’ difficulties in reading, the teacher believed that the major problems arose in they got less practice
and less motivation in reading, and the teacher also said that she did not find yet an appropriate teaching strategy to solve those problems.
The third category is related to the teacher’s strategy in teaching reading previously to solve the students’ difficulties in
reading comprehension. It was found that the teacher often took the reading materials from students’ handbook called LKS and the
English text book served by the school. Reading was focused on reading aloud, translating the entire words in the passage and finding
the difficult words then translating whole passage into Bahasa Indonesia. It made the students bored and loses interest in the subjects
which affect their reading ability. Next, The teacher had given sufficient time for students to arrange the students into group, but it did
not work well because they relied on the cleverest in their group to answer the question. Up to now; the teacher had been looking for an
alternative way to teach reading and to engage students actively in teaching learning process. At last, the writer proposed to implement
Students Team Achievement Division STAD in assisting students’
difficulties in reading comprehension and engage students actively in teaching learning process.
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c. The Result of Pre Test
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