commit to user Context Inventory. Students subjective reports on their motivation and their teachers’
teaching performance, and their reading comprehension scores were collected. The cultural text showed that students tended to have better reading comprehension scores
when their teachers provided more cognitive support and used more motivating instructional practices to motivate them to read.
2. The improvement of the Classroom Situation
a. The directed reading can increase students’ motivation
The research findings showed that the use of directed reading can improve students’ participation and motivation in teaching learning reading skill. The
students’ participate more actively in reading because they are interested in the text and of course their motivation to comprehend the text is higher. That is why the class
becomes inspiring and interesting. The finding is in line Reading is fluent process of reader combining information from a text and their own background knowledge to
build meaning. The goal of reading is comprehension Nunan, 2003: 68. Reading is the process of understanding written language. It begins with a flutter of patterns on
the retina and ends when successful with a definite idea about the author’s intended message. Thus reading is at once a “perceptual” and a “cognitive” process. It is a
process that bridges and blurs these two traditional distinctions Rumelhart, 1994: 864.
From the statement above it can be concluded that reading is a process of getting information and message from written language. In understanding the
message from written language, the reader much has background knowledge. Hence in the process of reading the reader much combine their background knowledge and
the content of the text. Besides, they should combine their interference, memory and the strategy of reading. Urguhart states any valid account of reading process much
consider such cognitive aspect as reading strategies, inference, memory, relating text to background knowledge, or well as decoding and obvious language aspects as
syntax and lexical knowledge 1998: 18
b. The directed reading can increase students’ cultural awareness
commit to user The directed reading was taken from newspaper, literature book, magazine
and internet and so on where the language they use for native speaker, so the text also has cultural value because language and culture is inseparable. When students read
the directed reading text, they were having cultural understanding. This statement is supported by Brown 2001: 64 he stated that anytime you successfully learn a
language, you will also learn something of culture of the speakers of that language. So the students not only learn the language but also the culture.
c. The directed reading can increase students’ interest in reading
