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interdependence, promotive interaction, individual accountabilty, social skills and group processing. They have to a adapt cooperative learning to their unique
circumstances, needs, and students and b fine-tune their use of cooperative learning to solve problems students are having in working together.
3. Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition a. Review on Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition CIRC is developed at the Johns Hopkins University by Dr. Robert Slavin and colleagues. Cooperative
Integrated Reading and Composition is a comprehensive reading and writing program for students in grade 2 through 8 Steven, et al., 1987. Cooperative
Integrated Reading and Composition uses a single text that everyone reads. Slavin 2005: 24 states that in CIRC reading, students are taught in reading groups then
return to mixed ability team to work on a series of cognitively engaging activities, such as reading to one another reading partner, making predictions about the
text, summarizing text stories, and vocabulary. Students work in teams to master the main idea and other comprehension skills. CIRC reading and CIRC language
artwriting provide a structure for teacher to each and students to learn which helps
all students
become more
effective readers
and writers.
http:www.ed.govpubsEPTWeptw4eptw4c.html . Steven and Slavin 1995:
6 state that CIRC Reading and CIRC Writing are usually used together, but can be used as separate reading and writing programs.
b. Steps of Conducting of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition
In CIRC, all groups work cooperatively on program related activities. There are some steps in conducting CIRC, as follow:
1 Preparing the material that will be used in learning process. The researcher divides the learning material into some parts.
2 Warming up the class and giving some questions dealing with the topic. If the students do not know about the topic, the researcher will give short
explanation.
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3 Asking the students to make study group which consist of four to five students in each group heterogeneous learning teams. They will learn about the
reading material. 4 Giving a text to each of group. They will share information, solve the problems,
read to each other and do the task given by the teacher . 5 Explaining some points of the material if the students have some difficulties.
6 Asking each groups to present or read the result of their discussion. 7 Giving conclusion and states the topic for the next meeting
B. Rationale
Reading is a essential factor that influences one‟s activities in
communication. Reading builds communication with people around us. For the students reading is a means of learning all subjects. Reading is really important
than the others language skills. Reading English texts is useful, such as: for pleasure, study purpose, careers, and so on. It also provides good model for good
writing. Moreover, by reading a text one will have a chance to study a language, such as: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and the way of constructing
sentences, paragraphs, and texts. The objective of teaching English in junior high school is stressed on
reading skill. Students are taught to comprehend written English text. Therefore, teacher has a responsibility to make students easier in comprehending written text
and facilitating them in order to get well comprehension. It is difficult for students to comprehend a foreign language text, since their mother tongue is different
systematically with a foreign language. The researcher observed and recognized that students
‟ reading comprehension of the Class VIIIA of SMP Negeri 1 Matesih in the academic year of 20092010 was still low and far from the
expectation. The writer found out that there were gaps among the students in the class. Only some students who have a good achievement and are active follow the
teaching-learning process and the others were passive. Most of them were sleepy, bored, and not enthusiastic to follo the teaching-learning process. So, the
interaction in the class was low. Their ability was still far from the expectation,
