because the students have opportunities to share their idea and interpret the text with their friends in a group. In this technique, students are assigned into groups
that consist of four or five member in each group. It gives students an opportunity to work in group with other students and helps each other in teaching learning
process in order to master the subject material Group work technique requires the students to have a more active role in
the learning process. Group work technique is seen to be effective in learning reading because each student has different chapters, lessons, materials, or texts
given by the teacher and they have responsibility to make their friends in their group to comprehend it well. The learning process in group work technique is not
simple because a group may be said to exist when two or more persons have as one quality of their relationship some interdependence and process some
recognizable unity. The members meet in face-to-face situations and form distinct impressions of each other. There is an interaction that is, each member reacts to
the behavior of each other member. The individuals comprising the group not only interact, but they often act together in a unitary manner toward their environment.
From the explanation above, the writer believes that the use of group work technique can improve students‘ reading comprehension. So, the writer would like
to do study on teaching reading comprehension through group work technique.
F. Action Hypothesis
Hypothesis of the action is provisional answer to the problem that is faced. It
is an alternative action viewed by the writer as the appropriate one used in classroom action research to solve the problem that is faced by the teacher and
students. The hypo thesis is that group work technique can improve students‘
reading comprehension of narrative text on the eighth grade student of SMPN 13 Tangerang Selatan.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter covers research methodology consists of place and time, subject of the research, research design, Instrument of the research, technique of
collecting data, technique of the data analysis, and criteria of the action success.
A. Place and Time of the Research
This Research was conducted at SMPN 13 Tangerang Selatan Academic Year of 20152016, which is located at Jl. jalan Beruang II Peladen Pd. Ranji Ciputat
Timur Tangerang Selatan. The research was carried out on 18
th
February to 20 April 2016. The selection of the school was relatively accessible, both
administratively and in term of distance.
B. Research Participant
The subject of the research was the students of eighth grade of SMPN 13 Tangerang Selatan, Academic Year of 2015-2016. There were eight classes from
1 class to 8 class. In this case, the writer chose VIII-8 class as the subject ot the research. There were 40 students which is consists of 22 female students and 18
male students in the classroom. The class was chosen based on the English teacher selection, among other classes, VIII-8 students had the lowest score in English
and the writer agreed to applying the strategy in that class. Also, it was to help them to improve their comprehension in reading. That is why teacher needs to
find an appropriate technique to improve this class score in reading.
C. Research Design
This research used Kurt Lewin‘s design as a CAR procedure in this research. It consists of two cycles contains four phases; planning, acting, observing, and
reflecting. This research used classroom action research CAR in this study, so it followed principle of CAR to collect the data.
Figure 3.1 The Kurt Lewin’s Design of CAR
Adopted from Wijaya Kusumah, 2009
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Based on the Kurt Lewin‘s action Research design above, there are four phases in one cycle. Those are planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The
writer wants to describe a plan for Classroom Action Research CAR. Here are details of action plan:
1. Planning Phase In this phas
e, after identifying and diagnosing students‘ problems in reading comprehension by interviewing the teacher, observing the class, and
conducting the test, some plans related to how solve the problems in the classroom were made. The writer as English teacher makes lesson plan based
on the issue in the classroom and to improve students‘ reading comprehension in narrative text through group work technique to make students more
interesting in learning. Then she and the teacher try to solve the problems by using group work technique to be implemented in the classroom. The writer
makes a lesson plan based on the syllabus, material, media, resources, and evaluation which consist of test pre action and in cycle 1 and 2. The lesson
plan will be implemented in VIII-A class of SMPN 13 Tangerang Selatan.Then the form of lesson plan implemented to the students in the class. Post-tests were
also prepared in order to know whether there were some improvements on the
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Planning
Observing Reflecting
Acting
