4 Therefore, the researcher will implement the cooperative integrated
reading composition through a set of reading instructional materials design, which is designed by Santi Dyah Ikasari. The title of the design is “Designing a Set of
Reading Instructional Materials for the Fifth Grade Students of Kanisius Demangan Baru
Elementary School Using Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition CIRC,” Ikasari, 2005. The researcher will use a set of reading
instructional materials design to help the researcher to provide the suitable materials with the implementation of CIRC. In this study, the researcher is not
going to evaluate the design materials. The researcher will focus the study to describe the implementation of CIRC to teach reading.
B. Problem Identification
Considering the research background above, the writer identifies that the elementary students need to be taught reading using interesting reading materials
so that they will enjoy learning English. If they feel enjoy in reading, it will help them to achieve better result.
The Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition CIRC is one of the methods that can be used in teaching reading for elementary students. Through
this paper, the writer will focus on the attempt to describe the implementation of CIRC to teach reading to the fifth grade students of Kanisius Kintelan Elementary
School Yogyakarta.
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C. Problem Formulation
In relation to the research background and the problem identification, this research is going to answer two questions as the guideline of the process of
conducting and writing the research paper. The problems of the research are formulated as follows:
1. How is CIRC implemented in teaching reading for the fifth grade students of Kanisius Kintelan Elementary School Yogyakarta?
2. What are the factors that influence the implementation of teaching reading using CIRC?
D. Problem Limitation
The focus of this study is to investigate the implementation of the reading materials design using Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition CIRC. The
writer would like to investigate how the CIRC is implemented in teaching reading to the fifth grade students of Kanisius Kintelan Elementary School Yogyakarta.
Besides, the writer also would like to find out the factors that influence the implementation of teaching reading using CIRC.
The participants that will be used in this research are the fifth grade students of Kanisius Kintelan Elementary School Yogyakarta. Further explanation
of the research participants will be discussed on chapter III.
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E. Research Objectives
Dealing with the problems that have been formulated above on the problem formulation, the objectives of this paper are:
1. To describe how CIRC is implemented to teach reading to the fifth grade students.
2. To find out the influencing factors in teaching reading using CIRC.
F. Research Benefits
