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summarized across sentences, paragraphs and passage as a whole. In the process of reciprocal teaching, students work in groups; discuss material
reading text. They work together to construct meaning and check one another for comprehension and possible misunderstanding and they become
increasingly flexible in how they apply the strategies they have learned. The strategy training allows them to gain more self-confidence and
motivation to read and even expertise as they apply the four strategies to a variety of text. The predicting strategy makes students activate their prior
knowledge in order to construct hypotheses of what will be discussed in the text. By attempting to clarify the sources of their difficulties, students become
familiar with a range of potential comprehension blocks in text. Questioning important information in the text helps students distinguish between important
information and detail. While constructing summary encourages them to see the text as a coherent whole.
The interaction between students during the process of reciprocal teaching in discussion of the text increases cooperation and greater initiative.
Furthermore, it can improve their leadership skills as they play the role as discussion leaders. Moreover, it also can increase students’ awareness of the
target language when they debate ideas and interpretation during the process of using that language.
Based on the description above, the writer chooses and determines the research entitled
“IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION USING RECIPROCAL TEACHING A Classroom
Action Research at the Eighth Grade of SMPN 13 Surakarta in the Academic Year of 20102011.
B. Problem Limitation
In this research, the problem will be focused on how to improve students’ reading comprehension at the eighth grade of SMPN 13 Surakarta through a
certain technique that is reciprocal teaching.
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C. Problem Formulation
The problems are formulated in the research as follows: 1. How can reciprocal teaching be implemented in improving reading
comprehension? 2. What are the key aspects of implementing reciprocal teaching in reading
class?
D. Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study in the research are: 1. To describe how reciprocal teaching can be implemented in reading
comprehension. 2. To describe the key aspects when reciprocal teaching is implemented in
reading class.
E. Benefits of the Study
The result of the study can give the following benefits: 1. For the students
a Students can gain more self-confidence and motivation to read and even expertise as they apply the four strategies to a variety of text.
b The interaction between students during the process of reciprocal teaching in discussion of the text increase cooperation and greater
initiative. c Students will be encouraged to communicate and share the idea with
their classmate and also with their teacher. Therefore, the atmosphere of teaching learning will be more interesting and enjoyable.
2. For the teachers a They can use reciprocal teaching technique as an alternative technique
in teaching reading. b This study can give a contribution to other teachers to innovate
learning strategy, especially utilizing reciprocal teaching. Therefore
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they can improve both teaching learning activity and students’ learning achievement.
3. For the institution of education The reciprocal teaching technique can enrich the teaching technique and it
also can be used for other subject material in order to increase the students’ learning achievement and learning performance.
4. For the researcher The result of the study can give the valuable experience for her to conduct
a better action research in the future.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW ON RELATED LITERATURE
