D. Thinking Framework
From the previous theories, the writer concludes that reading is one of the language skills that students need to be acquired, because reading can
develop their knowledge and their language skill. When students read a text, they have to comprehend and interpret the ideas from the text, so they can get
the information and message from the writer. John J. DeBoer stated that,” reading as an activity which involves
the comprehension and interpretation of ideas symbolized by written or printed language.”
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To make students comprehend the text, teachers try to find any ways to help them in learning reading, they try to give students
awareness that they may not to understand every word in the text; they can understand the text from the content of the text. When students have to
interpret the text, they may need their experiences. Therefore, reading can be as a transaction activity with the written text.
People read a text because they may have some purpose. Purposes in reading can help the reader to feel involved with the text. In general, people
read to get information and get pleasure. Students of L2 also have their own purpose, for example, they read to search information, to learn new
information and to evaluate the information, this activity can increase their knowledge and reading skill. But, when they read a foreign language, they
face some problems, the factor may come from the students themselves, some of them thought that reading a foreign language is difficult because there are
many strange word, so they have to open the dictionary all the time and this situation make their reading go slowly. In addition, when they have to learn in
big classes, they are difficult to concentrate in reading the foreign language. In order to solve the students’ problem, teachers may use group
work technique in reading activity; it may provide the students to develop their reading skill. As we know, group work is an activity where students
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work together and interact each other to solve the problem that increase when they read a foreign language.
In a group, students can share ideas and exchange their knowledge or information each other. It is useful for them to make them enjoy in the class
and when they find strange word in the text, they can share with it their group. When the writer observed at the second grade of MTs Negeri
Parung, she found that group work was used in teaching learning process. This activity can make students to be more active in the class because they learn to
how to solve the problem by discussing together. Based on this observation, the writer considers that group work will help the students to develop their
reading skill. In general, learning reading by using group work technique, may
give something useful can do for the students: 1.
They can work correspondently with their group 2.
They get a greater chance to share their opinion and information 3.
They learn to make decision and solve the problem in the group.
E. Hypothesis
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