retrieve the words he has memorized easier rather than to retrieve words which has no clues or visualization at all. In other words, the practices enable the students to
pay more attention to the words they learn. Paying attention has important role in grasping information. According to
Ormrod 2003:196, a psychologist, the storage of what we see, hear or sense will disappear if we give no attention to it. The Sight Words Recognition Practices are
closely related to the memory systems. The practices are designed to ease the students store the learned words. The practices including various fun tasks prevent
the students from learning boredom and help the students keep their mind to the material they learn. The more storage of sight words a reader has, the more success
he gets to reach reading comprehension. Based on the discussion above, the writer is interested in carrying out a study
on practicing the Sight Words Recognition Practices to improve elementary students’
reading comprehension. The study entitles FACILITATING READING COMPREHENSION
THROUGH SIGHT
WORDS RECOGNITION
PRACTICES A Classroom Action Research in the Fifth Grade of SD Negeri Begajah 01 Sukoharjo in 20092010 Academic Year.
B. Problems Identification
According to the background of the study, the writer identifies the research problems as follow:
1. What are the problems of students’ reading comprehension?
2. How can the students’ reading comprehension be improved?
3. What factors influence the students’ reading comprehension?
C. Problems Limitation
The problems identified have broader scopes and it is impossible for the writer to deal with them all. It is better to brief the scopes to get the precise
identification. Thus, the writer limits the problems on improving reading comprehension to children through Sight Words Recognition Practices.
D. Problems Statement
Based on the problem limitation, the research problems are formulated as follows:
1. To what extent can the Sight Words Recognition Practices be an appropriate
way to improve the students’ reading comprehension? 2.
Will the Sight Words Recognition Practices improve students’ English reading comprehension?
E. The Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this study are to know how far the Sight Words Recognition Practices improve the students’ reading comprehension. It also aims to give general
description about the implementation of the Sight Words Recognition Practices in the classroom and about the phenomena occurring in the class when the techniques are
implemented.
F. Benefits of the Study
The research result is expected to give some benefits to several sides. Firstly, the study will give a clear description about how the Sight Words Recognition
Practices is implemented by the researcher who functions as the teacher in order to improve students’ reading comprehension.
Secondly, for students, it is expected that the result of the research gives some advantages for the students of Elementary School to have courage to learn English
and to have good reading skills. Thirdly, it is also hoped that by this research, the information gained can be
useful for teaching English, especially on teaching reading in Begajah 01 Elementary School as the place where the research is conducted and it is expected that the school
is able to improve its quality of English teaching-learning process. Finally, for Teacher Training and Education Faculty, it is expected that the
result of this study can be a medium and a provider of contributions to explore one of the aspect in teaching English. It is also hoped that the study can be one field work
that can be used as a comparison for the students of Teacher Training and Education Faculty who are doing the same research.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
