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teaching will be concentrated on the teaching of reading comprehension for Madrasah aliyah Negeri students. The students who will be chosen are the
eleventh grade of MAN 2 Metro in the academic year of 20122013. Meanwhile, the motivation will be used as an attribute variable, because it is believed that
students’ motivation is another factor that will influence the students in reading comprehension.
D. Problems Statement
Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulates the problems in the form of research questions as follows:
1. Is Think Pair Share more effective than Direct Instruction to teach reading comprehension for the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Metro 20122013?
2. Do the students having high motivation have better reading comprehension than those having low motivation for the eleventh grade students of MAN 2
Metro 20122013? 3. Is there any interaction between the teaching Method and students’
motivation to teach reading comprehension for the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Metro 20122013?
E. Objectives of the Research
Based on the above formulation of the problems, this study is primarily intended at finding out:
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7 1. Whether or not Think Pair Share Method more effective than Direct
Instruction Method to teach reading comprehension for the eleventh grader students of MAN 2 Metro in the academic year of 20122013.
2. Whether or not the students who have high motivation have better reading comprehension than those who have low motivation for the eleventh grade of
MAN 2 Metro. 3. Whether or not there is an interaction between teaching methods and
students’ motivation on the students’ reading comprehension.
F. The Benefits of the Study
The result of this study is intended to give contributions in teaching English both theoretically and practically. Theoretically, this study will support
the theories on language teaching and learning, especially those related to this study. Then, practically the benefits of this study are placed into some intensions
as follows: 1. For the students
a The students’ English reading comprehension increases. b The students are trained to be capable of reading texts using Think Pair
Share method. c The students’ vocabulary will increase automatically.
d It will give an enjoyable learning situation which can improve students’ motivation.
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8 2. For the teachers
a They can use Think Pair Share as an alternative method in teaching reading.
b It stimulates the teacher to find a new method which is appropriate for teaching reading.
c The result of this study can be used as a starting point of being creative students in doing something, especially in reading the English texts.
3. For the other researchers a The result of this study can be used as a reference of conducting further
relevant research. b The result of this study can be used as a thinking framework of finding out
another solution to solve students’ problem in comprehending the English texts when they are going to conduct the investigation.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
