Criteria of the Action Success

First category discussed about the general condition in English class primarily on situation of the classroom, students’ responses in learning English and students’ achievement of the English test. Based on the teacher explanation, situation of students in the classroom was very crowded and noisy because there were forty six students inside the classroom. But when they studied in the morning, situation of the classroom was not so noisy because they still felt fresh and could concentrate in studying English. On the other hand, they felt bored and uncomfortable when they studied English in the afternoon. Therefore they did not focus on the teacher explanation and became so noisy. Besides, some students felt enthusiastic in learning English and most of them were students who liked English lesson. But other students did not feel the same thing because they did not like English lesson or felt English was so complicated. Consequently, they were not enthusiastic and lazy in learning English. Furthermore, the teacher said that most of them still got the score under the Minimum Mastery Criterion – Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM and they were hardly to pass it. The second category discussed about the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension. The teacher told that reading skill was one of the most difficult faced by students in learning English. Some students in VII - 1 class felt that reading could make them dizzy, because when they were asked to comprehend kinds of longer texts which consist of some paragraph, they did not understand to convey the meaning of word by word, although they were able to recognize the words. Next, the teacher assumed that they were hardly to concentrate when reading activity because the class was noisy especially in the afternoon which might be caused by some students who did not like English lesson. In brief, the teacher thought that all students got difficulties because they got less practice in reading. These problems had to be solved because reading skill was needed by students to comprehend many reading texts that they will get it in their examination and the teacher also said that he did not find yet an appropriate teaching strategy to solve those problems. The third category discussed about the teacher’s strategy in teaching reading previously to solve the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension. The teacher said that he used English textbook served by school and students’ handbook called LKS. When teaching reading activity in the classroom, the teacher did not use only one method but he combined some methods. The teacher’s method in teaching reading activity included in these procedures. First, he read the book in front of the class and the students listened while he was reading. Second, the students repeated after him. Then, he asked students to translate the text. The last, he and students discussed about the text. He assumed that the method was not enough to solve the students’ problem in reading comprehension, he needed other method. Therefore, he suggested the writer to implement group work technique in solving students’ difficulties in reading comprehension. It was suitable with kind of text such as descriptive text.

2. 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 at VII – 1 class of MTsN 19 Pinang Kalijati academic year 20102011. There consisted of 46 students in the class. The pre-observation was conducted on Wednesday 27 th to Thursday 28 th October 2010. It was started on Wednesday at 07.00 A.M and finished at 08.30 A.M and on Thursday at 11.15 A.M and finished 12.30. In general, during the teaching learning process in the classroom, the teacher dominated the class. Hence, students only got less opportunity to be active in the class. Then, the teacher read the text in front of their class and students repeated after him and then some students were asked to read the text orally in front of the class. Next, the teacher asked them to translate the text into Bahasa Indonesia. After that, the teacher and students discussed about the text. But some students