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CHAPTER 4. RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter focuses on the result and discussion of this study to English teaching reading and students’ reading comprehension ability test in SMPN 1
Banyuwangi. This chapter presents the result of interview, documentation and try out. The result and discussion of the research are reported correspondingly in the
following sections.
4.1 The Result of Interview
The interview was conducted on June 17
th
, 2014 with the English teacher on eighth grade of SMPN 1 Banyuwangi to obtain the data about the English
curriculum, the technique used in teaching English, and the textbooks used in teaching English. The results of interview were as follows.
From the interview, it was known that the teacher conducted the teaching of English in the eighthth grade at SMPN 1 Banyuwangi. The English teacher
used the lesson plan when he was teaching. The researcher got a lesson plan about reading comprehension of recount text from the English teacher as the
documentation, as enclosed Appendix 7. In teaching reading, the English teacher used 2006 Institutional-Based-
Curriculum and he used some techniques in teaching English, such as lecturing, discussing, giving exercises and sometimes giving a game to the students. The
teacher started the lesson by giving some leading questions to the students which were related to the topic. He gave the materials to the students first and then gave
the explanation about what was being discussed. Then, the teacher asked the students to read the text loudly or silently. He also used paired reading to help
students comprehend reading text easier. Next, the students were asked to make a list of some difficult words from the text and find the meanings of the words.
After finding and discussing the meaning of some difficult words with class, the teacher asked them to do the exercises individually and discussed the correct
answers with the whole class.
According to the English teacher, the English lesson for the eighth grade students had four sessions in a week. It takes 40 minutes for each session. He
took the materials from the English text book entitled “Let’s Talk” Joko Siswanto
et al, 2005 and also students’ worksheets entitled “English Assessment Text”
Nur Zaida, 2010. He said that he used the textbook as a supplement to the materials he was teaching.
4.2. The Result of Documentation
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