CHAPTER IV THE RESULT OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are used to know whether Sight Words Recognition Practices can improve students’ reading comprehension and to find out
to what extent the Sight Words Recognition Practices improve the students’ reading comprehension in elementary school. Those findings and the discussion are
described in this chapter. Every cycle in this research consists of series of steps, namely: identifying
problem and planning, implementing the action, observing and monitoring the action, reflecting the result, and revising the plan.
A. Process of the Research
In conducting the research, the researcher performed the teaching of English to the 5
th
grade of SD Negeri Begajah 01.
1. Pre-research
In the pre-research, the researcher found no significant problem identified related to the students’ reading comprehension. The problem was in the
techniques used by the teacher in teaching reading which were less varied; especially in giving meaning of new words. When explaining the new words met
by the students in reading, the teacher would directly give the meaning or she would have the students read the dictionary. Opening the dictionary is one of the
word recognition skills but there is no one best technique to study words. The indicators of the problem can be seen in a situation of the pre research on
Wednesday, September 9
th
. One of the students, Danti, was asked by the teacher
to find out the meaning of word ‘fishing’. There were two problems faced by the student: firstly, she couldn’t find the word ‘fishin
g’
directly, due to the word was laid in the item ‘fish’. Secondly, after few minutes, the teacher asked Danti what
was meant by ‘fishing’. Unfortunately, Danti did not remember even the word she had just found out. From those findings above, it can be seen that opening
dictionary is not the best way to recognize words, moreover recognizing the words immediately.
Based on the psychological approach, Danti gives just a little attention to the word she looked up; so that the storage of word ‘fishing’
stored in her sensory register might disappear. To save information need repetition and rehearsal. Danti
would recognize word ‘fishing’ immediately if she looks up the word in the
dictionary for several times. The problems existing in the reading class above mostly come from the
technique which gives less rehearsal and repetition in studying new words. The teacher only utilized the dictionary to identify and recognize new words. It is
possible if the students get bored of studying reading due to the teacher’s monotonous technique. For the elementary students, various techniques should be
utilized to build motivational English learning, especially in improving students’ reading comprehension.
2. Research Implementation
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