prediction about the text. This method asks students to make prediction about the content of the text. The teacher asks some questions to the students to make the
prediction. DRTA has some purposes. The purposes are to encourage the students
in reading and elicit students‟ prior knowledge of the topic of the text. It also gives motivation for the students to read and understand the texts.
This research analyzes the effectiven ess of DRTA to improve students‟
ability in reading hortatory exposition text. I use Pre experimental research to know that the DRTA is effective to improve students‟ ability in reading hortatory
exposition text.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The reasons why I choose the topic are as follows: 1
Reading is an important skill for students to improve their English. They use reading to get much information, experiences and knowledge.
2 Students have difficulties in understanding text types especially hortatory
exposition text. Many students think that reading hortatory exposition text is very boring, and they have difficulty to understand it.
3 I choose DRTA because I want to make the students easier in understanding
the exposition text and the method makes the students to be active in reading. 3
1.3 Statement of the Problem
The problem that will be discussed in this research is as follows: Is the Directed Reading Thinking Activity effective to improve the
students‟ ability in reading hortatory exposition text?
1.4 Objective of the Study
Based on the statement of the problem above, the objective of the study is to know the effectiveness of the use of Directed Reading Thinking Activity to
improve the students‟ ability in reading hortatory exposition text.
1.5.
Significances of the Study
The significances of this study are: 1
For teachers of Senior High School, the result of the study can give an alternative method in teaching reading exposition text. It can help teachers to
improve their teaching process and they will be more creative in teaching reading especially teaching reading hortatory exposition text.
2 For students of Senior High School, the result of the study can make them
easy to understand hortatory exposition text and make them enjoy studying English.
3 For myself the researcher, the process of the research will be very useful as
an experience in constructing comprehension test and being involved in classroom situation while giving the test.
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1.6
Hypotheses
Best 1981:7- 8 states that “the research or the scientific hypothesis is a
formal affirmative statement predictive a single research outcome, a tentative explanation of the relationship between two or more variables”. A hypothesis is a
suggested answer of the problem in research. There are two hypotheses in this study. They are the null hypothesis H0
and alternate hypothesis H1. 1
H
1
: there is a significant difference of the students‟ achievement between pre test and posttest. Statistically
posttest etest
X X
Pr
2 H
o
: there is no significant difference of the students‟ achievement between pre test and posttest. Statistically
posttest pretest
X X
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The outline of the Study
The study is divided into five chapters that can be presented as follows: Chapter 1 gives the introduction that contains the background of the study,
reasons for choosing the topic, the statement of problem, the objective of the study, the significances of the study, hypotheses and outline of the study.
Chapter II presents review of related literature which discusses the general concept of reading, the general concept of reading comprehension,
general concept of Directed Reading Thinking Activity, and the definition of the hortatory exposition text.
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Chapter III deals with research method which will discuss research design, subject of the study, instrument of the study, data collection, method of
analyzing data, and criteria of assessment. Chapter IV gives interpretion of the result of the study which will
analyze the data by using t-test.
Chapter V presents some conclusions and suggestions.
