understand the chapters that follow this one. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the structure of the written report.
A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The researcher conducted this action research study from February to April 2011, in the classroom of the junior high school in which she is the
teacher of English. The school, situated in Jayapura city, namely SMP N 3 Jayapura, opened in 1970 and was well equipped for the more than thousands
students enrolled. Almost 80 eighty percent of students were native Papua. A small group of ten students who low interest and ability were invited to
participate in the study. The
researcher investigated students‘ reading ability to use teaching and learning strategies effectively to improve reading ability grades. She
decided to teach reading skill that has been successful when used by well- known researchers. The balanced text-type approach is used in the classrooms
of her school board; she chooses to use local texts with scanning of instruction with the small group because it would be familiar to them.
Hannay, Wideman, Seller 2006 describe action research as an interactive process. It starts with the teacher reviewing data about hisher
students‘ performance and developing a question of the kind, ―How can local text with scanning improve student reading ability
?‖ The teacher then develops and implements a strategy to attempt to improve results. Further
formative and summative data is collected as the strategy unfolds, and the
analysis of the data provides feedback about the effectiveness of the change in practice. The teacher records hisher observations and findings, draws
conclusions that will shape future practice, and shares what she has learned with colleagues.
In other countries learning reading is more tends to improve their literacy skill. It is needed to be more surviving in every field of life. In
Indonesia learning reading is more focus on to do the test. Students are faced on many reading texts inside during national final examination.
Papua especially is the same thing. But students in there are different with other students in other places in Indonesia. They do not like to read.
Reading is not the culture, reading is not the habit. Spoken culture is stronger. Many students felt failure to do the test. Students begin to avoid reading from
text book when they found difficulties, getting frustration and give up soon. Sometimes they showed their antipathy to English teacher such as get in and
out of room, absenteeism on English learning subject. The teacher herself did nothing to change the situation. What are in teacher‘s mind was she only did
her job as teacher the best. In the learning process of English, students are forced to be familiar to
additional settings. One fact is that their English text books are, once again, dominated by different settings. It does not a matter to the students who
stayed at big cities where information and the learning materials are getting easier to find but it does really a matter to students who lived in a remote area
while the process of English learning is ongoing operation. A minimum of
information from television or internet is also the facts that colorful followed the minimum of information to acquire the knowledge.
The focus of this study is then exploring English learning in Junior high school. There is one main reason why the researcher put her choices on
this education level. First, the researcher has spent her professional career teaching at junior high school and really wants to help classroom to be more
positive climate in teaching learning process.
B. PROBLEM FORMULATION
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