by suggetopedia or dsuggestopedia. According to Jack Richard and Rodger, Suggestopedia is a modern methodology in teaching foreign language that come
from Bulgaria.
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It is developed by a Bulgarian doctor and psychotherapist, Georgi Lozanov. It involved physical activities, educational, artistic and musical
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. Students must be comfortably relaxed in learning process by using soft music or
classical as the background. The teacher brings the material and motivate for students. To create the classroom comfortable in reading process without students
under pressure to get ideas from they read. Therefore, based on the explanation above, the writer is eager to conduct
study about the effectiveness of suggestopedia on students’ reading
comprehension in narrative text A Quasi- Experiment Study at the Third Grade Students of MTsN II Pamulang as her “skripsi” title.
B. Identification of Problem
Based on the description above, the problems can be identified as follows:
1. Students have limited number of vocabulary that makes students difficulties to comprehend in narrative text.
2. Students get difficulties to comprehend the story from narrative text. They get hard to know the schematic structure of story.
3. Students don’t feel comfortable or relaxed in reading activity in
classroom. Teachers have to create the atmosphere of learning process relax and fun.
4. Teacher uses methods that make students bored in reading activity and
they don’t have motivation to read.
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Jack C. Richard., and Theodore S. Rodger, Approaches and Methods in Language teaching.New York: Cambrige University Press,1992, p.142
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C. Limitation of Problem
Based on the problem identification above, the writer tends focus on the effectiveness using suggestopedia method
on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text an
d the study focus on students’ reading comprehension of text narrative text in literal level the reader can
memorize approach new information of the text for the third grade in MTsN II Pamulang.
D. Formulation of Problem
The formulation of the problem in this study i s “Is Suggestopedia
Effective on Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text at the
Third Grade Students of MTsN II Pamulang?”
E. Objective of Study
The objective of study is to prove whether using suggestopedia is effective on students
’ reading comprehension in narrative text at MTsN II Pamulang.
F. Significance of Study
The results of the study are expected for English teacher to use this method as an alternative strategy to comprehend for
students’ on reading comprehension and be implementation in the classroom. To students, the
result of the study it will be to increase their interesting and knowledge in learning English especially in reading comprehension. To other researcher
it will be reference for educational field especially to use this method in learning process and teaching.
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CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
