Clustering is more effective than Direct Instruction. The students who have high interest have better reading

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a. Clustering is more effective than Direct Instruction.

Clustering is difficult to say. Clustering is a type of pre-reading that allows the studentslearners explore many ideas as soon as possible. Robb ike brainstorming or free associating, clustering allows studentslearners begin explore many ideas from their mind . It is a good way to develop idea before starting the reading activity. The students can do it on their own or with friends or classmates to try to find inspirations or idea. As Beth Taylor said 2009:1 in his visual learners who like to look at and create charts. Clustering can help On the contrary, Direct Instruction makes the students depends on the lass. The teacher will be engaged in many planning decisions, such as deciding what heshe wishes to teach, and how heshe will go about the reading process Parson, Hinson, and Brown. 2001:11. They wait until all the words are translated by the teacher to get the message of the text given to them. This technique does not promote achievement in creativity, thinking and problem solving. Therefore, Clustering is more effective than Direct Instruction. commit to user 97

b. The students who have high interest have better reading

comprehension than the students who have low interest. An interest can be expressed through a statement that indicates the students prefer a case of the other things. Students who have an interest in certain subjects tend to give greater attention to the subject. Interest also has a major influence on learning, because if the teaching materials are not in accordance with student interests, students will not learn well. Teaching materials that draw students will be better understood and stored and increase their interest in learning. The Liang Gie 1987:20 says that interest besides allowing the concentration of the mind, will also cause excitement in learning. Cheerfulness will enlarge the persons ability to learn and also help students not easy to forget what he learned it. Learning by unhappy feeling would make the lesson was very heavy. learning. The students with high learning interest are always active, creative, curios, having good participation in the teaching and learning process. They have their own spirit to study for gaining their best competency and skill. When teacher applies clustering in teaching reading, the students can easily understand the material given by the teacher and they are much more interest in learning. On the contrary, students with low interest face problem with most of the academic process. The students are difficult to maintain their interest in reading passage, they get confused to recognize part of speech through reading passage, misplaced the correct part of speech in reading passage, commit to user 98 some of them still get difficulty in finding the factual information, and still do not know the meaning of each sentence. Slameto 2003: 180 stated that the lack of interest in learning can lead to a lack of interest in a particular field, it can lead to refusal to teacher. Kaniyem 2012: 2 in her article said that Interests has big effect on learning result, because, if the lessons materials not in accordance with their interests, students will not learn well because it did not interest them. Students will be lazy and will not get the satisfaction of the lesson. Teaching materials that attract students, would be easy to learn, so it can improve in learning achievement . Therefore, clustering is effective for student having high interest.

c. There is an interaction between teaching techniques and learning