25
B. Research Subject
The researcher chose the student grade IX C in SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Yogyakarta in the academic year of 2014- 2015 as the source of collecting the
data. It was because the class had problem in reading comprehension. It was also based on the discussion with the English teacher.
C. Research Setting
The research was conducted in SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Yogyakarta. Besides, the school also has a student union office, school health center, living room,
science laboratory, hall, mosque, library, and computer laboratory. English is conducted two meetings per week. The teaching and learning
process of English is conducted 2 × 40 minutes per meeting. During the teaching and learning process, the English teacher uses some books and LKS as the
materials. In choosing the materials, the English teacher refers to the curriculum such as standard competency, basic competence and syllabus.
D. Research Procedure
This research procedure involves five phases including reconnaissance, planning for action, action and observation, reflection, and developing new plan
and cycle Angwin, et. Al. 1997. The explanation of each phase is as follows.
26
1. Reconnaissance
The reconnaissance step was conducted in the classroom in order to get information and description of students’ reading comprehension ability in the
English learning process. In reference to the data of observation and interviews, the researcher and the English teacher identified the existing problems related to
students’ reading comprehension ability and selected the feasible problems which were possible to be solved.
2. Planning for Action
After identifying the problem, the researcher and the English teacher made some plans of action which were appropriate to be implemented both in the first
and the next cycle. 3.
Action and Observation After planning the actions, the English teacher and researcher carried out the
actions in the classroom. During the implementation of the action research, the English teacher became the teacher and the researcher became the observer who
observed the process of English teaching and learning in order to know the success of the actions to i
mprove student’s reading comprehension ability and also the problems occurred during the implementation process.
4. Reflection
With regard to the implementation processes, the team members evaluated the result of the implementation. It was done by discussing the success of the action
Kategori