one student to another student in groups for 15 minutes. Sixth, the students who received the question paper had to answer it in the spherical paper interchangeably,
and the last was evaluation. In this research, the fifth procedure was changed into asking students to throw the question paper to other groups. Then the sixth procedure
was also changed into the students answered the question from other groups and the teacher would give a prize for the best
groups’ score. These two steps were considered to give better activity in incorporating group competition in teaching and
learning process. Tauer and Harackiewicz 2004 state that the combination of cooperative and competitive group learning can improve the students’ intrinsic
motivation consistently. Furthermore, it facilitates enjoyment and performance of students.
Based on the explanation above, the writer gave the title of this research “Enhancing the eighth grade students’ recount text reading comprehension
achievement by using snowball throwing technique at SMPN 7 Jember”.
1.2 Problems of the Research
Based on the background of the research above, the problems of this research are formulated as follows:
1. Can the use of snowball throwing technique improve the eighth grade students’
recount text reading achievement at SMPN 7 Jember in the academic year of 20152016?
2. Can the use of snowball throwing technique improvethe eighth grade students’
participation at SMPN 7 Jember in the academic year of 20152016?
1.3 Objectives of the Research
Based on the problems above, the objectives of this research are formulated as follows:
1. To improve Eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement on
recount text by using snowball throwing technique at SMPN 7 Jemberin the academic year of 20152016.
2. To improve Eighth grade students’ participation in the teaching learning
process by using snowball throwing technique at SMPN 7 Jemberin the academic year of 20152016.
1.4 Significance of the Research
The result of this research is expected to give some significances as follow:
a. The English Teacher
The result of this research is expected to be useful for the English teachers. It will give more understanding about the use of snowball throwing technique in
teaching reading recount text. They will know snowball throwing technique not only good for teaching reading recount
but also good for students’ participation.
b. The Students
The result of this research can motivate the students to learn reading comprehension well, engage students to learn in groups, increase responsibility to
deliver the material to other member of a group. In addition, this technique improves stude
nts’ knowledge in reading skill. c.
Future Researchers
The results of the research is expected to be used as the references for other researchers to conduct a further research dealing with the improvement of reading
achievement in other text genres by using different research design. The future
researcher is also suggested to conduct a research which is intended to improve not only reading, but also other skills of English or even a certain language component.
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CHAPTER 2. THE REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
