51 gap between the theory and practice of education and furthermore teacher’s
development of his own personal educational theories from his classroom practice.
D. Procedure of the Research
There were three stages of procedure of this research. They are : 1 Planning; 2 Acting and Observing; and 3 Reflecting. For further explanation,
the conducting activities were :
1. Planning On this stage the researcher explained what, why, when, where, by whom,
and how the action was going to be done Arikunto, 2006: 17. Planning is a phase after early reflection phase is done. It means the researcher has done
reflection to the real situation after formulating the topic of class action research that is Improving Student’s Reading Competence Through Algorithmic Reading
Program . At this stage the researcher began to identify the problem and decided the
alternative problem solving which was included : a. Deciding the competency standard that is reading
b. Deciding the indicators of each given activity c. Developing learning scenario
d. Preparing learning sources e. Developing evaluation format.
52 2. Acting and Observing
The second step of the research was implementing or applying the content of the planning . The researcher had to be aware of her planning formulation. In
this stage the procedure of each term were : a. Giving students reading habit questionnaire
b. Choosing the participants randomly c. Setting the students in a reading class
d. Giving a pretest e. Having the students interviewed about their last experience of reading
f. Starting the students to have a beginning task which is available to improve the students’ motivation in following the program
g. Giving the students first task which is a set of previewing and predicting activities
h. Having the next meeting and giving the second task which are scanning , topics, and main idea activities.
i. Having the next meeting and giving the third task which are finding pattern of organization, using reference words, and skimming activities.
j. Having the next meeting and discussing their idea and opinion on this program.
3. Reflecting This stage was started by observing the result of the assessment. During
the observation, the researcher made some notes on the improvement of the students in reading during the exercises giving.
53 After the reading practice was over the researcher gave an overview about
the program and gave suggestion and advice on what aspects should be improved. The students were doing the post test, some interviews and discussion with the
researcher and the collaborator.
E. Procedures of Data Collection
