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understand the text. It involved the teacher and the students in the teaching and learning process. It was still not enough to improve the students’ mastery in
reading comprehension. Second, the teacher during teaching reading lesson also did not allow
the students to understand the text deeply. The teacher taught mostly by discussing the generic structure of the text and identifying grammatical
features of the text. The teacher did not let the students know how to get the meaning from the text intensively. It is very important to understand the text
first before talking about the grammar and the generic structure. Third, the problems also came from the students. They were not so
enthusiastic to start the English lesson. After the bell rang, they did not enter the class directly. At first, several students were busy so the lesson was begun
quite late. In addition, some of them did not pay attention to the teacher’s
explanation so the teacher should come to their seats one by one .
It means that they could not learn independently. They needed friends to learn reading
English text in the classroom. Thus, the researcher planned to conduct a research to improve the students’ reading comprehension.
C. Delimitation of the Problem
Knowing that there were many problems, it is impossible to discuss all of them above because of the limited knowledge of the researcher. Therefore the
problem that would be concerned was the teaching method as the observation showed that the teaching process
didn’t give contribution on improving the
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reading comprehension of the students. Therefore, the research focused on using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition as the teaching method
to improve the reading comprehension ability. It has been proved by many teachers in the past that CIRC was a good method to teach reading
comprehension. The result of the teaching and learning process was satisfying. In that case, the subjects of this research were the class VIIIH
students’ of SMP IT Abu Bakar. This class needed to be improved in terms of reading
comprehension among the other classes. Therefore, the researcher together with the collaborator decided to use
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition to improve the reading comprehension ability of students in class VIIIH of SMP IT Abu Bakar
Yogyakarta in the first semester of the academic year of 20132014.
D. Formulation of the Problem
Based on the delimitation above, the problem of the research can be formulated as follow
: “How can the reading comprehension ability of students in grade VIII of SMP IT Abu Bakar Yogyakarta improve through the use of
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition ?”
E. Objective of the Research
According to the formulated problem, the objective of the research is to improve student’s reading comprehension ability in grade VIII of SMP IT Abu
Bakar Yogyakarta by using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition.
