SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta and the questionnaire for the eighth grade students of SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta. The detail
information of those two results are presented below.
a. Students’ Needs Based on the Interview with the Teacher
The writer interviewed the English teacher of SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta who taught the eighth grade students. The interview was
conducted on August 3, 2010. The English teacher said that the eighth grade students of SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta were interested in English if it
was presented interestingly. They were at the average level. Half of the students were smart and only a few of them are less smart. In order to help the teacher in
understanding the lesson, the teacher used some activities to improve the students’ skills, such as describing, drawing, testing vocabulary, and using communicative
learning when the teacher teaches the students. These activities were effective enough in the classroom.
The teacher said that the students’ ability in reading skill was good enough. There were some of problems when the students learn reading such as vocabulary
and pronunciation. In order to solve those problems, the teacher always gives a kind of vocabulary drill to help the students learning vocabulary. Besides, the teacher
gives the new vocabularies from the new topic and guides the students to practice how to pronounce the words. In teaching reading skill, the teacher always starts the
teaching learning activity by giving the general topic of what will the students learn before start to learn the lesson. When the students read the passage, the teacher asked
the students to underline the difficult vocabularies and then find the meaning in the dictionary. The teacher said that the students’ vocabulary ability was low.
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The teacher stated that the school needed English teaching-learning materials that could help the students to study faster and providing media for example pictures
and games. The teacher also stated that activities and materials that the students needed were materials that could improve students’ will to learn English. The teacher
said that the students were accustomed to using English in the classroom such as greeting, describing themselves, asking and offering help and asking permission. The
teacher use bilingual in the teaching learning activities, Bahasa Indonesia was commonly used to explain the materials because the students did not understand all
the explanation in English. The teacher also said that some of the students who are smart could understand the teacher’s explanation in English.
The teacher said that the learning materials were taken from student books. The teacher explained that the students did not involve in deciding the topics for learning
materials. The teacher finds the topics for the learning materials based on curriculum, what the students’ needs and what the students’ interested in. the teacher also stated
that the students were not accustomed to work in group, but the students often discuss the lesson in group without the teacher’s order. The teacher also stated that
the students liked to study in group. Some advantages of working in group were sharing, gathering opinions on how to solve the problems or difficulties in learning,
completing each other promoting to the discussion, promoting the passive students to become more active. The disadvantage of working in group was that the students
who are passive were usually as followers. The teacher found two obstacles when the students worked in group. First, the
teacher should make sure that all of group members work together, not only depends on other group members. Second, the teacher must check groups frequently. The
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teacher said that the students could work better in group when the materials seem little bit difficult for them. The teacher said that Cooperative Learning was a method
focusing on group based learning and there was cooperation among the students to achieve the goals together. The teacher also said that teaching learning through
Cooperative Learning could be applied for the eighth grade student of SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta. Since Cooperative Learning material was
possible for discussion, the students could discuss and argue their ideas in group in order to find the answer. Besides, the materials are interesting and familiar enough
for the students. In this study, the writer tried to design acceptable materials which can help students to succeed in their learning in Reading based on Cooperative
Learning.
b. Students’ Needs Based on the Questionnaires for the Students
