The Subject of the Research

2. Interview Guide The interview guide was the guidelines for the researcher in giving questions to the students and the teacher. It was used for the interview before and after the implementation of the study. 3. Reading Comprehension Test The reading comprehension test was used for the pre-test and the post-test. It was a multiple choice test consisting of 50 items. The materials were adapted from some textbooks. In developing the comprehension questions, In developing the comprehension questions, the researcher based on types of comprehension proposed by Day and Park 2005 namely; literal, reorganization, inference, prediction, and evaluation. To get the validity of the test, the researcher used content validity. The researcher used existing concepts in the current curriculum Suharto, 2006:3. Here, the researcher developed the test based on the basic competences and the indicators of the basic competences which were taken from the current curriculum during the study was conducted, school-based curriculum. To get reliability of the pretests and posttest items, the researcher tried the test out to the students from the other school in which the students have relatively the same abilities. Then after getting the students’ score in the test, the researcher used the ITEMAN 3.5 program where Cronbach’s Alpha statistic was used to find the reliability of the test.

E. Data Collection Technique

The data about the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension were obtained by doing observation in the English class, conducting interviews after class meetings, and administering the reading comprehension test. These data collection techniques are described below. a. Observation The observation was done to get the information that was needed. The researcher collected the data by observing the class situation and condition in the teaching and learning process. She sat at the back of the classroom and noted down the class activities in the teaching and learning process. The observation results were recorded in the form of field notes. b. Interview The interview was done to know the helpfulness of the actions. The researcher interviewed the students and the English teacher about the activities in the teaching and learning process. The information obtained from the interview was recorded into interview transcripts. c. Reading Comprehension Test The reading comprehension test was administered before and after the researcher conducted the actions. The reading comprehension tets was used to measure the students’ reading comprehension. The test was in the form of a multiple choice test consisting of 50 items. The data of the reading comprehension test were collected in the form of numerical data.