76 improvement of students’ reading habit; c, d, e the improvement of students’
reading strategy; f the improvement of effective intellectual process; and g the improvement of students’ English thinking skills.
a. The improvement of reading motivation
Indicator : Given a set of reading strategy exercises, students are able to strengthen their motivation on reading through breaking their previous
habit of reading; reading without strategy, less in doing reading activity, doing book selection, and counting their own reading rate.
As this activity was supported by students’ reading diary which would be done at home for three days and started at the first meeting day, the result was
discussed in the last meeting of this cycle in which students and the researcher were having a less formal discussion. The students submitted their reading diary
within three days and suggested some opinions on weaknesses and strength of the previous activity.
The result of students’ reading motivation was proved by comparing the first reading diary to the next oneappendix 5 b and c. Those were as follows :
The first reading diary
Hourday Hourweek
Pageeach activity Minutes
Number of students
Hours Number of
students Pages
Number of students
10 4
1-2 10
2 6
15 6
2-3 4
3 3
20 3
3-5 1
5 2
30 2
Unsure 4
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The cycle 1 reading diary
Hourday Hourweek
Pageeach activity Minutes
Number of students
Hours Number of
students Pages
Number of students
15 4
1-2 9
2 5
20 7
2-3 5
3 7
30 4
3-5 1
4-5 3
There were some students who had read only for 10 minutes a day had changed into 15 minutes or more after the reading activity in the first cycle. It
happened the same way to those who felt unsure to their capacity of reading which were reflected by depended results appendix 5 b. It can be concluded,
therefore, that the students’ reading motivation increased. This, however, was not considered as motivation that came from themselves, but from the teacher
given assignments.
b. The improvement of students’ reading habit
As it was mentioned in the improvement of reading motivation, there were increasing points. On the other hand, it did not happen the same way to their
reading habit. Their weekly reading habit was set not more than one to 5 hours. Though there were some changes to the number of students, it could be
concluded that this did not increased.
c. The improvement of students’ reading strategy; Previewing and Predicting
