Introduction Research result and discussion

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Chapter IV Research result and discussion

A. Introduction

The purposes of this research are to finding out whether the use of directed reading to improves students’ reading comprehension. The students had low knowledgeable, different level and difficulties in answering WH-question, inference question and identifying the paragraph topic and mean idea. As a result their master score was low. The class situation was boring because the teacher was not enough experience, young teachers; the teacher used follow from the text book only and used monotonous technique. The teacher asked the student to open the text book then discuss the texts. When students did not ask questions, the teacher asked students to do exercise in the text book. The teacher did the same thing again and again. The students were bored because in the text book, the text was usually very long, not relevant with students’ life. So students were low motivation to participate in reading activity, some students were absent, lazy and play other during the reading lesson, some students play with their mobile phone and talk about unrelated topic to their peers. As the result the class situation was uninspiring. It can be included that the problems came from the teacher and the students. The teacher used the routine pattern of teaching reading and uses the text book which was “unfriendly” to students. The students were very passive in reading class; It need the technique and new text that make students’ reading comprehension and class situation are better. So this action research used pre-reading, whilst-reading and post reading to deliver the lesson and the text used was directed reading. According to Richards 2001: 252 refer to the use of texts, photographs, video selection and other teaching resources that are not specially prepared for pedagogical purposes, while created texts refer to text book and other specially developed for instructional resources. Furthermore there is unlimited directed reading text from internet. Directed reading were bridge the students and the teacher. By implementing this text the commit to user students were given the exposure the language used in real life. The students familiar with the topic that make them motivate to read more. The students would be active because the directed reading texts were relevant to students’ life. The implementation of directed reading was providing on interesting teaching learning process. The purpose of this research were improving students’ reading comprehension related to answering WH-questions and inference question, indentifying paragraph topic, main idea and class situation. Furthermore, the research describes the teaching learning situation when directed reading implemented in reading class. The research was carried out at Champasak University of Laos PDR. The chapter has two sections. Section A related to the process of the research which describes the condition before the research, the implementation of the research. Section B describes the findings and the discussion of the findings. The summary of the research is explained in Table 4.1 Table 4.1 Process of the research I. Pre-research: Gaining base line data 9 Observing teaching learning process 9 Giving questionnaire 9 Interviewing 9 Conducting 9 pre-test

II. Research implementation

Cycle 1 : Using directed reading text from newspaper, internet and other books 1. Planning 2. Implementing 3. Observing 4. Reflecting 5. Revising 9 Meeting 1: 15112010 Health 9 Meeting 2: 19112010 Boat Racing Festival 9 Meeting 3: 22112010 Dry season planting 9 Meeting 4: 26112010 Conducting 9 Post-test 1 commit to user Cycle 2 : Using directed reading text from newspaper, internet and other books 1. Planning 2. Implementing 3. Observing 4. Reflecting 5. Revising 9 Meeting 1: 29112010 Future technology 9 Meeting 2: 03122010 BounBangFai 9 Meeting 3: 06122010 Conducting 9 Post-test 2

B. The Process of the Research