Table 4 Alternative of Solving the Problem
Problems: 1.
The students can not infer the English text type from a certain text
2. They are not active reader, so they seldom find detailed information
3. They do not understand the main idea
4. They cannot differentiate between one text type and other text types
Alternative of solving the problem Plan of Action I: Doing collaborative learning
b. Teachers’ Field Notes
In order to know the students’ interest in reading comprehension, the researcher asked some information obtained from the fields. As a matter of fact
that the eleventh year students of science one got less than six in their daily tests, including mid semester tests and semester tests, this condition was caused by the
weaknesses in comprehending the English text types. Some of them did not show their capability well when the researcher asked about English text types. For
example, they could not classify the paragraph, they could not mention the language features, they could not know the social purpose, they could not infer
what type of text it is, and they cold not find the main idea.
Besides that, the researcher also asked the students about the teaching approach. In this case, the students said that the teacher tended to present the
material monotonously. For example, when the teacher taught a certain topic, she just explained by translating while the students listened to the teacher, or even
some of them took a nap. They were bored with this strategy.
c. Pre-test
The aim of the research was to solve the problems above. After analyzing the problems, the researcher gave pretest in order to measure the
students’ capability in comprehending the English text before being given the material through collaborative learning. The scores could be described into the
table of system of score category below: Table 5
Pre-test Scores Very poor
Poor Fair
Good Very good
Mean Score
5 students 13.51
22 students 59.46
8 students 21.62
2 students 5.41
_ 40 Fair
Based on the pretest scores, it could be seen that there were 22 students 59.46 who were poor, 8 students 21.62 were fair, 2 students 5.41 were
good, 5 students 13.51 was very poor, and none of them was very good. Meanwhile, the students’ mean score were in the fair category 40.
Based on this data, it could be concluded that the students still had the low capability in comprehending the English text types and the attempts to
improve the students’ capabilities in comprehending the English text types are still needed.
d. Treatment 1 Meeting 1
