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answers. Com topic reading interest. By having high level interest to learn something, students will have a big curiosity to learn and they also want to learn
harder. In the other words, the students who have high interest will be more successful than those who have low interest.
Based on the above phenomena the writer intends to investigate about the effectiveness of Test Taking Team to teach reading viewed from students’ interest
for the eighth graders of MTs. NW Penedagandor in the academic year of 20102011?
B. Identification of the problems
Based on the background of the study, there are many problems can be identified are as follows:
1. Why do the students have low reading competence? 2. What factors causes the students have low interest in reading?
3. Do the students have high interest in reading? 4. Does Test Taking Teams more effective than Direct Instruction Model in
teaching reading? 5. Is Test Taking Teams able to develop the students reading competence
for those having high interest? 6. Is Direct Instruction Model able to develop the students reading
competence for those having low interest?
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C. Limitation of the Problems
The writer realizes that it is impossible to answer all the problems which have been identified. Therefore, the writer only focused on the effect of Test
Taking Teams and Direct Instruction Model to teach reading to the students reading competence.
D. Statement of the Problems
Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulates the problem of the study as follows:
1. Is Test Taking Teams more effective than Direct Instruction Model to teach reading for the eighth graders of MTs NW Penedagandor in the academic
year of 20102011? 2. Do the students having high interest have better reading competence than
those having low interest for the eighth graders of MTs NW Penedagandor in the academic year of 20102011?
3. Is there any interaction between the teaching models and students’ interest in teaching reading for the eighth graders of MTs NW Penedagandor in the
academic year of 20102011?
E. Objectives of the Study
Based on the above statements of the problem, the objectives of this study are as follows:
1. Finding out whether Test Taking Teams more effective than Direct Instruction Model to teach reading for the eighth graders of MTs NW
Penedagandor in the academic year of 20102011?
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competence than those having low interest for the eighth graders of MTs NW Penedagandor in the academic year of 20102011?
3. Finding out whether there is an interaction between teaching model and students’ interest in teaching reading for the eighth graders of MTs NW
Penedagandor in the academic year of 20102011?
F. Significance of the Study
