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1. To find out how English reading materials using Contextual Teaching and Learning approach for the eleventh grade students of SMA Pangudi Luhur
Yogyakarta are designed. 2. To find out what English reading materials using Contextual Teaching and
Learning approach for the eleventh grade students of SMA Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta look like.
E. Research Benefits
This research is intended to give benefits as follows. 1. English Teachers
English teachers, especially in SMA Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta, will have more activities to teach reading. It means that they can use and apply this reading
materials design in the English class. By having this design, the teachers can apply various activities or even techniques to teach reading using CTL approach.
Furthermore, the teachers are also possible to develop another activity for reading class by understanding the design, in case that the students’ characteristics change.
2. Senior High School Students By having this reading material, the eleventh grade students of SMA
Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta will have more activities in reading class. Students will be more motivated by learning a new thing. Connecting the materials with
the real context in daily lives will increase the students’ participation and interaction in class. It also enables students to improve their ability to think, to
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react, to solve a problem, to learn actively especially in reading class. In addition, various activities in reading class can avoid students’ boredom.
3. Other Researchers This research can provide some helpful information related to the study. It
helps the other researchers to design the further research. In other words, the other researchers will be able to design another reading material using CTL approach
that is suitable for the learners’ level for whom they are intended to.
F. Definition of Terms
There are some definitions that the researcher had to clarify in order to make the research understandable, such as:
1. Reading According to Gibson and Levin 1979, reading is extracting information
from the text p. 5. It means that what people need when they are reading is to understand the text in order to gather the information or message. In this research,
reading is a comprehension process by recognizing and understanding a text in order to gather the information from the text. Reading is one of skills in English
subject which is learnt by senior high school students. This research focuses on the reading materials which are designed for eleventh grade students of SMA
Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta based on Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan. 2. Materials
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Materials are the things to learn. In this research, the materials which are going to be learnt is English text or reading materials. The materials are various
and are chosen based on the students’ interest. In this research, the materials are attractive, authentic, and contextual. Besides, the materials are designed based on
the curriculum used for the eleventh grade students of SMA Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta KTSP.
3. Contextual Teaching and Learning Approach Contextual Teaching and Learning CTL approach helps students to see
meaning in the academic material by connecting academic subjects with the context of their daily lives, that is, with context of their personal life, social, and
cultural circumstance Johnson, 2002, p. 25. CTL approach enables students to understand the meaning or the content of an English text by relating the materials
or the texts to the real context in our daily lives. In this research, CTL approach is implemented to determine the learning methods, learning activities and learning
materials, for example by using video and authentic materials teachers can stimulate students. Video and authentic materials enable students to learn easily so
that they can interact or to take a part actively with other students in the class. 4. Students of SMA Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta
In Indonesia, Senior High School is called as SMA Sekolah Menengah Atas. The school prepares students to be able to continue their study in the
university. The school consists of three grades, that is, tenth grade, eleventh grade, and twelfth grade. In this research, the students are in the eleventh grade of SMA
Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta. There are 6 six classes in every grade with 36 thirty
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six students for each class. In this research, the research participants are the students from science class, in which there are 3 three science classes in SMA
Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
