Research Finding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

As the writer has observed during PPKT activity at SMP PGRI 12 Jakarta, some difficulties that are faced by students in learning reading can be caused by some factors such as the limitation of time, so the teachers do not give them the materials optimally, because some students did not realize in condition so reading is various in one of some students. In order to help students’ problems to enhance their reading ability, the writer will use the contextual teaching and learning to make it easier. Then the teachers’ attempts to improve the students’ ability in reading are by using suitable approach in teaching reading, and must be useful in learning process is it can build students’ motivation and stimulate them to be more focus in the study. “A context is the parts of a sentence, paragraph, etc. or immediately next to or surrounding a specified world or passage and determining its exact meaning”. 1 Meanwhile “Contextual is a clue based on the text or information’s knowledge of the world”. 2 Contextual Teaching and Learning is a respond to Behaviourism Approach which emphasizes on the concepts of stimulus respond with mechanical drills. To be able to use the language naturally as in real life and in various situation critical thinking and meaningful learning are needed. When the students can relate the lessons they have got in school to their daily lives, they will be aware of the benefit learning. Besides, they will realize the importance of reading skills; in fact many instances around the world we may argue that reading is the most important foreign language skill, particularly in cases where students have to read English materials’ for their own specialist subject. The definition model contextual teaching and learning CTL in up ward is the model teaching to make connecting material and with the context of students’ real world not only material students’ knowing in school after students’ learn and than the CTL method to focus in students’ real world in she knowing and with material context to students’ knew. 1 Victoria Neufeldt, Webster’s New World Dictionary 3 rd edition united state of America: prentice Hall Trade, p.301 2 I.S.P Nation, Learning Vocabulary in Another Language Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 242