Reflecting the Action Procedure of the Research
on the feasibility to be solved collaboratively. Based on the discussion, the problems were formulated in the following table.
Table 3. The Feasible Problems to be Solved in Reading Teaching and Learning Process of the VII C Students of SMPN 4 Kalasan.
No. Field Problems
Code
1. The students found difficulties in comprehending the English texts.
Ss 2. The students’ vocabulary mastery was
still low. Ss
3. The unfamiliar words were not thoroughly explored by the teacher.
T 4. The teacher seldom asked the students to
guess the meaning of unfamiliar words based on the context of the texts.
T
5. The students still work individually in doing the given tasks.
T
T : Teacher Ss : Students
The problems mentioned above were related to each other. When the unfamiliar words found in the text were not explored thoroughly, the
students would find difficulties in comprehending the text. The teacher might ignore the pre-reading phase in which he could introduce the
important words to be understood so that the students could understand the text easily. In this case, most of the unfamiliar words were translated word
by word without connecting them with the context of the text. Those words were translated by the teacher directly when he found that there was
no one could translate the meaning of English words into Indonesian expressions. In addition, the students did the tasks individually so that
there was no space for them to communicate actively with peers in the
class. As a result, they had no confidence to show up their answers when they were asked by the teacher.