finish. They completed the questionnaire immediately following the second post- test.
The findings of this research study show that learners who had more participation during the pair and smallgroup activities demonstrated
improvedproduction of the target forms, even though they did not perceive the activities as useful for learning language. This small-scale investigation found that
Thai EFL learners who had more participation in pair and small group activities showed improved production of target forms. However, the findings may be
applicable only to instructional contexts that resemble the EFL learning environment described here. Through this research study can be addressed in
future studies so that EFL teachers have access to classroom based research that may help answer questions about when, how, and why to use pair and small group
activities in different kinds of EFL classrooms.
C. Conceptual Framework
As stated in the introductory chapter, the students at VIII A grade of SMPN 6 Yogyakarta had problems with their in comprehending the English text.
Moreover, their vocabulary mastery was poor. This problematic situation motivated the researcher to solve the problems and improve the quality of the
students’ reading comprehension through interactive reading. Interactive reading focuses on getting comprehensive understanding of the texts and other important
aspects of reading, such as vocabulary, grammar, techniques, and strategies. From the result of the preliminary observation, the reading activities were not well-
organized. The activities were just reading the sentences loudly and then translating the words into Bahasa Indonesia.
In reading the texts, encouraging the students to use reading techniques and strategies was one of the main activities. In fact, there were no application of
techniques and strategies in reading activities during the observation. To deal with the media, using power point presentations, handouts and pictures would be
applied in the classroom. The purpose of using various teaching media is to make the teaching-learning activities effective and enjoyable. Performing CLT or
Communicative Language Teaching in conducting the researcher as a teacher would use in the teaching-learning activities. CLT encourages the students to be
more active and emphasizes their roles as the center in teaching-learning process.
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Conceptual Framework
The problems students
reading comprehension
Interaction- based
activities The teacher dominated
the class.
The students forgot some basic concepts of
grammatical points.
The students depended on the dictionary.
The students did not have adequate vocabulary.
The students considered that reading English texts
were difficult. The students could not
answer comprehension questions.
Neither the students nor the teacher used any
reading techniques and strategies.
The students participate passively.
No interactions
Teaching Grammatical Points
Implementing the interaction-based activities.
Training the students to use reading techniques and strategies.
Motivating the students through stories and rewards. Providing the
students various media. The improving
the reading comprehension
of students.
The activities were not varied.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Setting
This research was carried out at SMPN 6 Yogyakarta. It is located in Mongonsidi Street number 1, Yogyakarta. It is one of the favorite schools in
Yogyakarta. It has seven classes for each grade. It has forty seven teachers in total including three teachers for English. Each of the English teacher teaches seven
classes. There are thirteen administration staffs and two security guards. The students are dominated by female students but not the number is not too significant. Facilities
such as library, science laboratory, computer laboratory, language laboratory can be found there.
The English teachers rarely used language laboratory because some tools did not work properly. There are seven classes from VIII A to VIII G in eighth grade.
Grade VIII A is located near the parking area. It has one white board, three fans, one LCD, two lamps, class administration data and cleaning equipment. There are 37
tables and 37 chairs. The characteristics of the school in general and the problems in the English classroom specifically, motivated the researcher to see closer. The school
principal and the teacher welcomed the researcher and allowed me to conduct the research study.
