5 students‟ reading comprehension of descriptive text after being taught using the
TPRC strategy.
1.6 Significances of the Study
By conducting the research about the effectiveness of TPRC strategy for teaching reading comprehension, the writer hope that the result of the research will be
useful to give some contributions to English language teaching and learning, i.e.:
1 Theoretically
Theoretically this study will motivate them to practice more than they did before and encourage them to learn English by improving their reading
comprehension. 2
Practically The results of this study will
be useful to examine how far the students‟ mastery of reading skill and comprehension, and also as a reflection in order to
increase and develop their method in teaching reading. 3
Pedagogically Pedagogically, the result of the study hopefully can be useful as the source of
reference and it is also useful to inform the readers about the effectiveness of the TPRC strategy for teaching reading comprehension of the tenth grader of
SMA Negeri 1 Ungaran.
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1.7 Limitation of the Study
This research was conducted to find out the effectiveness of TPRC strategy for teaching reading of descriptive text. Generally, TPRC strategy is one of the
strategy that can be applied to teach reading. Actually, this strategy is suitable not only for descriptive text, but also another kind of text like narrative, recount,
report, etc. The writer chose descriptive text because this material is appropriate to the syllabus of tenth grader of senior high school. Based on this reason, the writer
conducted a research that applied TPRC strategy to teach reading of descriptive text.
1.8 Outline of the Study
This final project consists of five chapters. Chapter I covers the general background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, hypothesis, statements of
the problem, the objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter II discusses about review of related literature and review of the
previous study. It comprises the effectiveness of TPRC strategy for teaching reading comprehension of descriptive texts.
Chapter III talks about method of investigation that consists of data of the study or data collection, participants of the study, variable, instruments for
collecting data, try out, t- test, procedures of collecting data . Chapter IV discusses data analysis and discussion that consists of students‟
reading comprehension achievement and the results of the research. Chapter V offers some conclusion and suggestions.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
