The Relationship between the Field Problems and the Actions

the activities of comprehending the text. The task was in the form of question card which consists of the elements of recount text topic, characters, settings, events, and the writer ’s impression and the list of unfamiliar words. It had a purpose to know the students’ achievement in reading comprehension. Moreover, to support the discussion practices, rewards were also prepared by the teacher. Rewards were given to the active students and the active group in discussion practices. It was aimed to increase students’ motivation in reading. This action was used also to solve the problems of the students’ low motivation. Finally, to record the teaching process, an observation sheet, a camera, and an MP4 were also prepared. In relation to the problem that students still have low motivation in reading, in the third meeting, a competitive game was organized by the teacher. It was aimed to motivate students in reading comprehension activity. Some games were prepared not only for modeling the text but also for doing reading tasks in the form of games which provided the rewards for the best group and the active students during the lesson. Lastly, to observe the test process, an observation sheet, a camera, and an MP4 were also prepared.

b. Actions and Observation

Cycle I was done in three meetings. The implementation of each action could be seen from the process of teaching reading in each meeting. The collaborator as the observer and the researcher as the teacher taught students using the planned actions. 1 Meeting 1 Sharing and Discussion As the previous teaching method focused on grammar, then the teacher conducted reading comprehension activities in the first meeting. First, the introduction of recount text was given to students to make them familiar with recount text. It was important for students to know the nature of recount text first. A recount text entitled My Holiday in Mount Bromo was provided. For building the student s’ knowledge, some questions related to holiday were asked by the teacher to the students. It was done to catch the students’ attention and to put up their knowledge related to holiday experience as the main topic in the lesson. The questions are “Have you ever go to somewhere for a holiday?”, “What did you do to spend your holiday?” and etc. A video of recount text was also shown to students to build their knowledge of various kinds of recount text. After that, in the next phase, a text entitled “My Holiday in Mount Bromo” was distributed for all students. Students were asked to read and comprehend the text in pairs. They read and discussed it with their friend. Then, the teacher asked some of them to read aloud the text in front of the class. There were three students who read aloud the text in front of their friends.