2. Determining the Actions
After having the listed problems that need to be solved, the researcher proposed some actions to overcome the problems occurring in the field. The
researcher was helped by the English teacher as a collaborator. The English teacher gave some considerations and suggestions related to the actions which could be
implemented in the reading class. The aim of this research was to improve the students’ reading comprehension
ability. In improving the students’ reading comprehension, an effective technique needed to be used. Based on the agreement, SS was decided to be used in order to
improve the students reading comprehension. By using this strategy, the students were expected to be able in grasping the content of a story better since this strategy
involved the students to be aware with the part of a story. The activities of SS would set in fun way so the students could enjoy the process of the teaching and learning of
reading. The collaborator also suggested that guessing the words’ meaning could be
implemented during the Structure Strategy practice to facilitate students in mastering the unfamiliar words.
This is the summary of the problems and the planned actions that were expected to be able to improve the students’ comprehension.
Table 4: Problems and Actions No.
Problems Actions
1. The students’ motivation of
reading got dropped when they found too many unfamiliar words
and too long texts. Implementing the context-based
guessing the meaning of words.
2. The reading activities were
Checking the students Structure SS.
mainly translating and testing. 3.
The students lacked reading strategies.
Training the students in using SS 4.
The students took a long time to understand the meaning and the
content of the texts. Training students to be aware with the
part of the text while reading the story so they can easily grasp the content of
the story.
5. The teacher rarely used interesting
method in teaching so the students got bored and sleepy.
Providing active reading activities by transferring information into Structure
Strategy diagram.
6. The students had difficulties in
finding the detailed information from the texts.
Training the students in using the Structure Strategy diagram to find the
detailed information.
B. The Process of Cycle 1
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