General Background of the Study

because Indonesian students have mastered the vocabulary and the structure of the Indonesian language. Reading English text is difficult for them. Sometimes, after reading a text, a student does not know what topic of the text is. He is unable to understand the paragraph he has read. The classroom teacher should be an observer to her students so she can follow the reading ability of them. In the English learning process, methods and techniques are very important. Many kinds of approaches, techniques and methods have been done to improve English reading ability. However, there are no best methods because every method has it own strengths and weaknesses. Besides, the success of a technique is based on various factors, such as the learning purpose, the number of students in a classroom, the atmosphere, and the students society. By knowing this unsatisfactory fact, the Indonesian government has made changes in the educational system in Indonesia, especially for the curriculum. Learning English as foreign language requires many factors which influence students Third, this result of the study may serve as the information for teachers that there are some problems in implementing the planned learning and teaching process of reading comprehension on the eighth grade of Junior High School students.

1.3 Statement of the Problem

The problems that will be discussed in this study is as follow: 1 how is the compatibility of the planned learning and teaching process made by the English teachers of the eighth grade of the First State Junior High School Semarang with School Based Curriculum? 2 how is the implementation of the planned learning and teaching process of reading comprehension? 3 what are the problems faced by the English teachers of the First State Junior High School Semarang in implementing the planned learning and teaching process of reading comprehension?

1.4 Purposes of the Study

The purpose of the study can be stated as follows: 1 to explain the compatibility of the planned learning and teaching process made by the English teacher of eighth grade of the First State Junior High School Semarang with School Based Curriculum. 2 to explain the implementation of the planned learning and teaching process of reading comprehension. 3 to find out the English teacher