Preliminary Study Reconnaissance Procedures of the Study

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a. Preliminary Study Reconnaissance

To know the condition of the students at MTs Misriu Al-Hasan, the researcher did preliminary study before doing Action Research in the classroom. Preliminary study was done to find out the practical problems Reconnaissance  Doing observation in the seventh graders’ class  Giving pretest to know the student’s reading ability Analysis and Finding  Many of students got difficulty in comprehending Descriptive text because, in the reading, they seemed not serious in gaining comprehension. Even, they tended to make noisy and seem less interested if they were asked to read and answer questions about the text. Reading English text and answer questions about the text individually might be easy by high ability students. But average and low ability students might get difficulty in doing it. Whereas, the amount of students that have high abilities over there are more lower than the amount of students that have average and low abilities.  The result of the pretest showed that they were 19 students got scores 30- 60 low ability, there were 6 students got scores 70 average ability, and there were 3 students got scores 80-100 High ability. Planning Preparing lesson plan, fields note, observation sheet, and the criteria of success . Implementing Applying NHT teachnique in teaching reading on Descriptive text Observing Observe using the instruments of collecting data. Reflecting Analyze the process and the result of the teaching and learning process. Stop Failed Revise d Succes Figure 3.1: Procedure in CAR Adapted from Kemmis McTaggart’s Theory : 2010 31 in the classroom before the researcher makes a plan. If the basis of practical problems were found, then the researcher can make a plan. In the preliminary study, the researcher interviewed the English teacher, did observation, and administered pretest. The researcher interviewed the English teacher who teaches English from first grade until ninth grade students on Saturday November 26 th , 2016. It was done after the researcher some minutes met the head master of MTs Misriu Al-Hasan Kraton to ask permission for conducting a research. In the interview between the researcher and the English teacher. The researcher asked some questions to the English teacher about the school. From the interview, the researcher knew that only one English teacher that always handles English subject in the school. The teacher stated that she only used to teach by using conventional method and never uses any kind of teaching media such as LCD projector, because of the lack facility in the school. And she also stated that most of the students in MTs Misriu Al-Hasan Kraton feel that English is difficult and they are less interested to read English taxt. Therefore, the teacher suggested the researcher to propose another technique to teach English, especially in teaching reading. Based on the researcher’s observation when the researcher administered pretest on January 16 th , 2017. The researcher found that girls students were calm. They did not much talk, but directly did what has been asked by the researcher. But, they boys students were talkative and tended to make noisy and could not engage with the teaching and learning process. The researcher also found that the most students over there were 32 less interested to read English text. It was proved by the result of pretest that showed most of the seventh graders got scores under the minimum score KKM 75. According to the scores of pretest result, they were 19 students got scores 30-60 low ability, there were 6 students got scores 70 average ability, and there were 3 students got scores 80-100 High ability.

b. Planning