appreciate others, to help each other, and to develop other social skills needed in the working world Richards and Rodgers, 2003.
Based on the explanation above, the writer would like to design a set of reading materials based on cooperative learning for the eleventh grade SMA Santo
Bernardus Pekalongan. There are many schools having the same problems with SMA Santo Bernardus Pekalongan in reading teaching-learning but the writer
pays attention to this school because the students in this school still face difficulties in learning reading and the school can be accessed easily.
B. Problem Formulation
In this study, the writer formulates two questions. 1.
How is a set of reading materials based on cooperative learning for the eleventh grade students of SMA Santo Bernardus designed?
2. What does the designed set of reading materials based on cooperative learning
look like?
C. Problem Limitation
In this study, the writer deals with reading as it is one of the four skills that still has to be improved and given special attention to in SMA Santo Bernardus
Pekalongan, especially in the English teaching for the eleventh grade students. Besides, the teaching of reading in SMA Santo Bernardus Pekalongan still has
obstacles. The students tend to work individually and develop competition rather than cooperation. Therefore, the writer intends to design a set of reading materials
based on cooperative learning for the eleventh grade of SMA Santo Bernardus Pekalongan.
In this study, the writer intends to develop reading materials that can help teachers and students overcome problems they face in reading teaching-learning
activities. Since SMA Santo Bernardus Pekalongan is a school employing school- based curriculum as the basis of the implementation of all four English skills
including reading, the writer would like to develop a set of reading materials based on cooperative learning. In addition, the writer would employ the principle
of some teaching approaches, that is, cooperative learning in order to develop the suitable reading materials for the eleventh grade students of SMA Santo Bernardus
Pekalongan. Considering all the explanation above, this study is limited to designing a set of reading materials for the eleventh grade students of SMA Santo
Bernardus Pekalongan based on the principle of cooperative learning.
D. Objectives of the Study
There are two objectives in this research. 1.
To design a set of reading materials based on cooperative learning to help the attainment of the objectives of the eleventh grade students of SMA Santo
Bernardus Pekalongan. 2.
To present the designed set of reading materials.
E. Benefits of the Study
