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understand, and interesting. Asking the students to read an intermediate level novel make them feel curious and it stimulates them to read more and more.
The writer chose the eleventh grade students in designing the materials because the materials itself very suitable to them, not to difficult and not to easy. The
writer also chose SMA Tiga Maret because based on the survey, that high school is lack of reading comprehension and it needs to be improved.
B. Problem Formulation
Considering the background presented above, the writer then formulates some problems in this study as follows:
1. How is a set of English supplementary reading materials using intermediate level novels for the eleventh grade students of Tiga Maret Senior High School
designed? 2. What does the designed set of materials look like?
C. Problem Limitation
The students in the eleventh grade of Senior High School sometimes feel difficult in learning English. In this position, the students have to work hard in order
that they can pass the third grade of Senior High School. The difficulty is because the students are not mastering reading comprehension well. As we know, it is not easy to
pass because the filtering system is very strict indeed.
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The teacher has to teach materials as interesting as possible. This study will limit the discussion on how to design a set of English reading material for the
eleventh grade of Senior High School students using intermediate level novels and what the application of the method for English reading material look like. This study
will create a new design in learning reading material. Therefore, it can help the students to reach the goal in the learning activity.
D. Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study can be formulated as follows: 1. To design a set of English supplementary reading materials for the eleventh
grade of Senior High School students using intermediate level novels. 2. To present a set of English supplementary reading materials for the eleventh
grade of Senior High School students.
E. Benefits of the Study
This research can hopefully give some beneficial contributions in the teaching learning activities of reading class for some parties who are closely related to this
study. The benefits of the study are for: 1. The teacher
The result of the study will give the benefits for the teacher to improve their strategies in teaching reading for the eleventh grade of Senior High School students
using intermediate level novels. The main goal of this paper is to give teachers a new
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resource of interesting teaching strategy in order that they can stimulate the students in reading and finding the meaning of a text using intermediate level novels.
2. The students This study is created in order to help the students learn better. By teaching
using intermediate level novels, the students are hoped to be able to improve their English competence. The students can join the class with a lot of fun and interesting
materials. 3. Further studies
Further studies are also needed because the set of design reading materials using intermediate level novels still need to be reconstructed, evaluated, and
reprogrammed.
F. Definition of Terms
