The Students’ Active Participation in the Teaching Learning Process of Reading Materials Adapted from the Internet Accessible

2.3 The Students’ Active Participation in the Teaching Learning Process of

Reading According to Tyler 2008, participation is the key of lively class. If only a few students participate by volunteering answer, asking questions, or contributing to discussions, class session will lose an opportunity to assess and promote learning McMahon, 2009. It means that stu dents’ participation is the important thing in a teaching and learning process that shows that the students are interested and motivated in class of reading to really understand what is being read. In this research, students’ active participation in the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension was reflected by their activity in reading the text given by the teacher, their enthusiasm in doing the task, their active participation in asking and answering question, their contribution in discussions about the lesson in groups, and making the notes about the lesson learned.

2.4 Reading Materials Adapted from the Internet

According to Dudeney and Hockly, as quoted in Sudartini 2010:1, the use of technology in language teaching is not new to mention in the teaching of English. In other words, materials taken from the Internet are commonly used in teaching learning process. In addition, nowadays, technology is very close to our live. It can be concluded that the materials from internet especially in reading totally give much beneficial effects for the students who learn English as a foreign language.

2.5 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Materials Adapted from the

Internet in Teaching Reading As reading materials used in a class, reading materials adapted from the internet have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages and disadvantages of materials adapted from the Internet for teaching reading in classroom would be presented in the following part respectively.

2.5.1 The Advantages of Using Reading Materials Adapted from the Internet in

Teaching Reading Heinich 2002:264 has noted that the strengths of reading materials from the internet are as follows: accessible, variety of media, up-to-date information access, navigation, idea exchange, convenient communication, and low cost. Furthermore, in this research the strengths of reading materials from the internet were: accessible, variety of media, up-to-date information access, navigation, and low cost. The sections below discusses in detail about those strengths respectively.

a. Accessible

One of the strength of the reading materials from internet is accessible. According to Heinich 2002:264, mentions that students no longer only have access to textbooks, but to content materials located far beyond the walls of the school building. It means by using the internet students can get the materials they need to learn. They can find it and no limitation to the students to access the material in the internet. Heinich adds that you and your students can obtain information housed in multiple, distant, and inaccessible libraries around the world. In other words, in the internet both of students and teachers can easily access the material for teaching learning process from the other collection book of other school and country.

b. Variety of Media