The Purposes of VSS

e Bringing up small-group discussion to guide the students in comprehending the text. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that the activity promotes the students to think critically. The activity does not just ask the students to define the meaning of the word, but also they have to think of the reason for selecting the word. Therefore, this activity could help the students to develop their high-order thinking skill since they would be able to solve the problem in this context, the students are trained to define the words after observing the text and they need to tell the reason of selecting the words. The teacher’s role here is to give an example how to deal with the activity and then let the students to participate actively in doing all of the tasks. For instance, the teacher gives an example of how to choose an important word which has a big influence to comprehend the whole text. This modeling will help the students to do the further activity that will be done in the small groups. The group work will encourage the students’ motivation to learn since they can communicate to share ideas with the teacher and their friends in the same or different group.

4. Teaching Reading Comprehension in Junior High School in Indonesia a. Curriculum 2013

The learning process based on the curriculum 2013 emphasizes on the students’ competence with the authentic assessment to attain the attitude, knowledge and skill competencies. The scientific approach is used as an approach to teach the students. The purpose of this approach is to encourage the students to be able to observe, question, collect the data, associate, communicate, and create. The scientific approach emphasizes on the process of the study, it does not merely emphasize on the final result of the study. The improvement of the students in the process of learning will be assessed to be calculated as the final score. The characteristics of learning at any educational institution are closely related to “Standar Kompetensi Lulusan dan Standar Isi.” In the description of “Pasal 35 Undang-Undang Nomor 20 Tahun 2003,” it is mentioned that the standard of the graduate’s competence is the qualification of the graduate’s ability involving the attitude, knowledge and skill of the students that must be attained at the elementary or secondary level. The learning activities do not just emphasize on one language skill, but the skills are integratedly taught. Thus, the receptive skills listening and reading may be taught at the same time with the productive skills speaking and writing. Zhang in Al-Sohbani 2014: 75 asserts that teaching integrated reading gives many advantages for the students since it can motivate them to learn by involving various kinds of tasks and