Data Analysis RESEARCH METHOD

The problems also came from the teacher herself. First, the teacher did not maximally use teaching and learning media to teach reading. The media often used during teaching and learning process such as board markers and white board did not help much in reading. On the other hand, LCD Liquid Crystal Display projector was rarely used by the teacher. She also did not use the other media such as pictures, realia, videos and so on. Second, the teacher rarely encouraged students to think about the meanings of some difficult words they found in the learning process. She always asked students to directly find the meanings in the dictionaries but most of the students did not bring dictionaries. In the end, she translated the word and the 4.1 R : Tadi menurut Ibu, kemampuan membaca kelas VIII A masih kurang. Itu disebabkan oleh apa Bu ? Miss previously said that the students’ reading comprehension is still low. What actually causes the condition? ET : Ya, itu mbak lack of vocabulary, mereka banyak yang tidak tahu kata-katanya. Kalau saya suruh mereka membuka kamus, kebanyakan banyak yang lupa bawa. Jadi saya harus mwmbantu mengartikan kata-kata sulitnya Yes. They lack of vocabulary. If I ask them to open the dictionary, most of them forget to bring it. In the end, I help them to tranlate those difficult words R : Kalau menurut Ibu selain vocabulary kelemahan siswa apa lagi Bu? Besides that, wh at are the students’ weaknesses on reading comprehension? ET : Mereka masih bingung kalau harus mencari main idea mbak, apalagi kalau tesknya bagi mereka susah yang vocabnya banyak yang tidak tahu.They are still confused when they are trying to find the main idea, moreover if the text is difficult for them to understand . Int-1 24 March 2015 sentence to the students. This strategy did not help students much in comprehending the text they read. To figure out the problems from students’ perspectives, the researcher also conducted interviews with some students of Grade VIII A. The problems were shown by this following interview transcript. In reference to the transcript above, student’s lack of vocabulary directly caused students’ low reading comprehension. In order to solve the problem, the strategy used by the teacher was by translating word by word to the students. However, that strategy did not help them much. It was proven by the fact that students could not comprehend the English text well. They still had difficulties in 4.2 R : Dek apa kesulitan terbesarmu dalam memahami teks bahasa inggris? What is your main difficulty in comprehending English texts? S : Kata-katanya banyak yang susah yang enggak tau artinya mbak. Ya kan jadi enggak paham textnya mbak There are many difficult words that I dont know the meaning yet. Therefore, I find it difficult to comprehend the text R : Oh begitu, kalau mencari main idea, atau topik teks itu gitu susah nggak? I see, how about finding main ideas or finding the topic of the text, is it difficult for you? S : Iya susah lah mbak, itu kan aku harus paham dulu artinya kan mbak .Of course it is difficult for me. I have to know the meaning of the words of the text first . R : Biasanya apa yang dilakukan bu guru untuk membantu kalian memahami teks? what usually the teacher do to help you comprehend the text? S : Biasanya sih langsung tanya kata-kata yang tidak tahu. Kemudian nanti diartikan sama ibuknya. Usually, I directly asks to her. Then she will transtlate the word Int-225 March 2015,