reading and writing of the students, 8 Explore and unfold the world of knowledge and information, 9 Helpful in learning grammatical usages,
carefully crafted sentence structures and idioms and phrases besides new words.
However, there are some problems that are faced by most of the English teachers
’ related use of learning material. First, some schools do not maximise to use English newspapers, i.e the school subscribes the English
newspaper but do not use for teaching- learning activities. Second, the English teacher has difficulties to find activity from newspaper that are appropriate to
the students’ needs. That is why the teachers teach English by using textbook and
students’ worksheet. Then, there is no provided advanced technology in the each class such as LCD as the important facilities in the teaching- learning
process. Therefore, some common activities are still listening to the teachers’
explanation and reading the materials. These conditions bring effects to the students. For example, the students have low motivation and easy to get bored
in learning English. In addition, they have low achievement in all English skills.
II. Identification of the Problems
Some problems are captured in the classroom at SMA N 2 Ngaglik that had been identified by conducting the observation. The problems were
captured by observing the teaching learning process, interviewing both English teachers and the students. This class have 24 participants.
From the observation, it can be concluded that the major problem is the materials that the teacher gives to students are not interesting and make the
students motivation to learn English is low. The major problem may be influenced by other problems; the problems will be described as follows:
1 Students
Students in this class had different interest, ability, and behaviour. These affected their achievement in learning English.
Students’ motivation to learn English was lack while motivation is the basic factor in learning process
in the classroom. The students who have high motivation were active but the students who have low motivation were passive and disturb the others. Most of
the students did not like reading a book, especially newspaper. In addition, the students only were read the text and answer the question based on the text in
English textbook or students’ worksheet.
In line with the problems presented above, through the informal interview, the student said that they were difficult to understand the meaning of
the text especially from newspaper text. Meanwhile, there was not enough activity in English textbook to raise their motivation. They agreed that those
things would avoid them to learn English. 2
Materials The teaching materials have also important role in teaching learning
activity. Richards and Renandya 2002 argue that teaching materials are an important argument in language in learning. They also mention that the
materials are the basis of language input for students and the language practice.
Because of its importance, the materials are designed by fulfilling many requirements to be good learning materials. However, the problem appeared in
the English classroom when the materials given are not interesting and make the students motivation to learn English is low. From the class observation,
sometimes the materials given did not match to the students needs. Through the observation, it could be seen that the materials only from
the English textbook and students worksheet. The students just spent their time to do some task such as reading a text and answering some exercise so that the
students might easily feel bored in the classroom. From the interview, the teacher said that she arranged lesson plans
based on the syllabus. However, not all activities mentioned in the lesson plans could be applied in the teaching and learning processes. It was caused by the
limited time. She also confirmed that the materials given were sometimes not in accordance with the materials mentioned in lesson plans.
Therefore, using the interesting material in learning English will be one of the smart solutions for this problem. One of the interesting materials is the
use of authentic material such as newspaper. The use of newspaper can motivate the students to learn English easily and interestingly.
III. Limitation of the Problems
