commit to user Reading is an activity with a purpose for reading guides the reader’s selection of
texts. The purpose for reading also determines the approach to reading comprehension.
B. Rationale
Reading comprehension is a process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language. In
doing so, the reader involve so many reading skills. Among them are finding mean idea, inference and paraphrasing.
In fact, some students encounter problems to activate those skills in reading comprehension. These difficulties were indicated as student’s incorrectly interpreted
mean idea with specific details; they could not relate between one clue to another; and they failed in determining the key point of sentence. The classroom situation
made these situations even worse. The students were passive during the lecturing. They even showed on interest toward the subject. Then, their low cooperation
completed their negative response to reading class. The students’ passivity in the classroom was indicated as students kept silent during lecturing and they also had no
response when they were asked questions. In addition to the passivity, the students also showed no interest toward reading classroom; many of them make the class
noisy, play with their mobile phone, talk to another topic and often go out of the class. Furthermore, they low cooperation was identified as they had no courage to
share ideas with friends; tended to work individually, and talk with their topic out of the discussion.
Teacher had also contribution for such students’ difficulties. The teaching learning process showed that, it was monotonous. Teacher less monitored the
students’ activity. The technique which was applied during teaching learning process made the students in such passive situation as they often got broad oral explanation
from their teacher. Besides, the teacher broad oral explanation is even considered fast to the students.
commit to user Knowing this condition, students have to have sufficient strategy to be
successful in mean idea, inference, and paraphrasing. Directed reading is selected as they can function at portraying the valuable information from the given text. In this
way, they can provide the bridge from the abstract concepts of the text to more visible idea that eases readers getting the intended meaning. As the answer of students’
passivity, directed reading also enhance the students’ participation in class interaction since that the students should be more active in the text-interaction with the given
directed reading. This model are very helpful both in individual and group work tasks. From the characteristics of directed reading above, it is believed that directed
reading can improve students’ reading comprehension in term of finding mean idea, inference and paraphrasing. Furthermore, directed reading also enhances the students’
participation in class interaction both in individual and group work tasks. The chief danger of this approach is that the reader may try to read in to the
text what he thinks ought to be there than what the writer intended. To counteract this, students should be trained to:
1 will help students develop reading skill 2 shows them how ideas can be discovered in the process of reading
comprehension 3 gives them immediate deep and critical feedback – from a peer
4 can lead students to have new experience of reading comprehension A reader can often produce a reasonable hypothesis about a text after only a
superficial reading. To do this, he must use resources such as common sense, general knowledge and experience, which has already, has. Encouraging him to make use of
them mean that you can start work on positive note ‘what do we know about this text? So what do you think this message is likely to be?. This is more encouraging
than starting with the negative factors such as unfamiliar vocabulary. It is also good strategy, for students much learn to utilize all their resources in order to make sense
of the text.
commit to user You can start by making hypothesis based on the title alone, if that is one, or
the title of the book from which the text come. Or you can ask your students to skim through the text and tell you very approximately what it is about. If there are several
different views, subsequent closer reading can be focused on establishing which is the most accurate. If none of the views are appropriate, ask the class to try again when
the detailed work has progressed far enough. Active experience of forming prediction about a text i.e. hypothesis, and
confirming, rejecting or reformulating them, is as important for a reader as it is for a scientist. You need to be particularly on your guard when the text involves matters of
opinion or emotion, because inexperienced readers often assume that the text will echo their own views; or where that is clearly not the case, that the writer is hostile-
which may be equally false. Base on the theoretical principles and the related research, the researcher
proposes the following hypothesis which is teaching English using directed reading can improve student reading comprehension.
Directed reading in the classroom I do hopefully that students’ comprehension is will improve and their attitudes toward reading because they are taught using
directed reading that is theoretically effective for improving students’ reading comprehension. Students have positive idea in reading skill. In addition, through
directed reading, the student can make and learn which help them to interesting and have a best understanding in learning process. For other lectures, they will get large
knowledge about teaching leaning directed reading and the result of the research can be the useful input in English teaching learning process especially for improving
reading comprehension. For the researcher, this research will improve the researcher himself in mastering English and knowing the plan which is appropriate to use. As
we know that reading is one of important skill for students and their future. I expect a lot in every cycle there are interesting activities which are including students’
improvement in reading comprehension. Finally, for the institution, this research will be useful as valuable resource in conducting the similar research.
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C. Action hypothesis
