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a. Students’ Reading Comprehension
In general the students of En 32 class of Champasak University, the subject of the research have good performance. Their English achievement could be declared
well enough but reading becomes a very boring subject for the students as the result, they often absent, different and low acknowledgement this situation is difficult to
teaching learning program. The teaching learning process had to help the problems. Furthermore, the students often forget to bring the reading text book because they
seldom prepared the lesson before. Even worse students are very passive; they participate reluctantly in all activities in reading class. Some students often talk to
other about unrelated topic or played with their mobile phones. When the students has to do the exercises they cannot answers WH-questions, they cannot answer inference
questions and they cannot identify paragraph topic and mean idea, as a result of pre- test.
Table 4.3 The result of pre-test can be seen as follows:
No Explanation Students’
score 1 Highest
98 2 Lowest
25 3 Average
57
Table 4.4 The grade, percentage mean score and complete questions of pre-test
GradeScore Students percentage
Not complete
Complete
A 80-100 3
10.0 B 70-79
5 16.0
C 60-69 5
16.0 D 50-59
4 13.3
F 0-49 13
43.3
Mean score 57
19 = 63.3 11 = 36.7
Number of Students 30 Students
30 Students 30 Students
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Graphic 4.5 The score of pre-test
Base on the figure above, it can conclude that most of students’ reading comprehension was poor.
The proof is that: The students’ passing score before the treatment of higher from grade A 80-100 scores have got 3 participants, equal 10 percentages. Grade B
and C are the same; they have got 5 participants and equal 16.7 percentages, Grade D total 4 participants and 13.3 percentages. Too much of the students’ low score, the
students have got low grade of score F 0-49 total 13 participants, equal 43 percentages.
The complete of students have got just 11 and equals of 36.7 percentages and the not complete of students have got 19 and equals of 63.3 percentages.
As the researcher observed, there are many problems had to be solved immediately. The students lack of motivation in reading. The students’ reading
comprehension still very low and many of them were not aware the importance of rearing. Moreover the teacher used to read text book which is quite boring for the
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not relevant with their lives. There was a way to overcome this problem that makes students unable to
understand the text and have low motivation. According to the researcher, the first thing to do was to change the reading material in to reading materials which have
more connection with the students’ lives, and different grade. The materials that make students want to read and interesting. In this case the researcher used directed
reading.
b. Classroom situation
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