Data Interpretation FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATION
2. The students should be accustomed to use Directed Reading – Thinking Activity DR-TA strategy so that they will be easier to comprehend the
text and more interested in reading texts. The students have to read more reading text in order to enhance their knowledge.
3. The teacher and the students have significant roles in achieving their success in a subject so that it should be realized that learning has two ways
process, not only teacher-centered but also student-center. In other words, the students should be more active in participating in teaching-learning
process. 4. For other researchers, this research will be a reference for further analysis
related to teaching reading of other kinds of texts not only for teaching narrative text.
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