F. Data collection Technique
Information about the teaching learning process before the implementation of the
action research was collected by observing the teacher’s teaching simulation and interviewing the teacher and students. The observation and interview were done to
know the situation of the teaching learning process and some problems related to the students’ reading comprehension.
The items which had been observed were about how the teacher delivered, explained, and gave examples of the text; how the teacher helped students to
comprehend the text; how the teacher encouraged students’ motivation; how the teacher guided
students’ activity; how the teacher monitored students’ activity; how the teacher gave feedback to the students; and how the teacher evaluated the
learning activity. The observation items also included students’ behaviour in the
class. They were about how students behave when the teacher explained the material, checke
d students’ understanding, guided students’ activity, and evaluated the activity, and how students behave when they worked with a text.
The interview items for interviewing the teacher included students’ ability
of reading comprehension, students’ weakness in reading comprehension, and
students’ activity in reading class. Meanwhile, interview items for interviewing students included
in students’ experience of reading texts written in English, students’ difficulties in reading English texts, and students’ activities in reading
class.
Information about the teaching learning process after the implementation of action research was collected by observing the researcher
’s teaching simulation and interviewing students and the collabolator. The observation was done to know
how the actions of the research were conducted. Meanwhile, the interviews with some students were done to know their impressions or responses on the action
research conducted. The items asked were about their opinions of the implementation of the POSSE strategy and their confidences when they were
applying the strategy. The interview was a l s o provided for the collabolator to get the information related to her impression about the implementation of the actions
and her suggestion for the next implementation. The reading comprehension scores were obtained by administering the
pre-test and post-test. The tests were in the form of multiple choice questions. The items were based on the micro-skills and macro-skills of reading comprehension
and standard of competence and basic competences of junior high school. The tests were about
students’ ability in finding the main idea, finding the topic, identifying the specific information, deducting the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items, making
inferences, identifying references, describing communicative functions of the text, and finding generic structure of the text. The results of the scores of pre-test and
post-test were used to see the improvement of students’ reading comprehension
after they were given the treatment. Before the pre-test was done, a try-out to the questions test to find out the
validity of the test item was conducted. After having the result of the try-out, the
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