3 like using song, pictures, and cards. For this study I choose to use cards as an
alternative by using look and say technique in teaching reading. In look and say technique, it is based on words and phrases, and makes a
lot of use of flashcards. It is usual started by teaching words which are already familiar to the children. The teacher shows the children the word and says it
while pointing to the object. The children repeat the word. This happens several times with each word. The introduction of the words only take a short time, and
goes quite quickly, so the teacher may spend five minutes of a thirty minute lesson on four new words. So this technique encourages recognition of a range of
words and phrases before reading a text. In this research, I want to find out how effective the use of look and say
is as a technique in teaching reading to the fourth grade students of SD Negeri 1 Kambangan, Tegal in the academic year of 20102011.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
In this study, I have chosen the topic “The Use of Look and Say as a Technique in Teaching Reading to Elementary School Students”, because I am interested in
teaching English for young learner. Most of them usually find difficulties in
learning English because it is different in vocabulary, pronunciation and grammatical rules from their mother tongue. Besides that the students have
unstable emotion which may disturb their language learning in the classroom. Many teachers are still applying conventional teacher-centered method in
teaching reading. They ask the students to memorize all reading materials
4 without providing supporting aids. It creates stressful class situation that makes
the students uncreative. Whereas in fact elementary students need both auditory and visual aids to fully understand the reading materials. Learning should be
contextualized. The materials should be related to real-life reading. Teachers should use interactive methods and techniques in teaching reading for
elementary school students to make them enjoy the learning process. For the reason above, I want to suggest a technique in teaching reading for
the fourth grade students of elementary school that is look and say technique. Look and say is a learning-by-doing technique. Look and say gives visual clues
for the students to understand meaning much clearer. By using look and say technique, I wish that teachers would get maximum outcome in teaching reading.
1.3 Limitation of the Study
In order to get a clear description of this study about using look and say as a technique to teach reading, I limit the scope of this study as follows:
1 The using look and say as a technique in teaching reading of simple text for fourth grade level of students SD Negeri Kambangan 1, Tegal.
2 The subject of the study is the fourth grade students of SD Negeri Kambangan 1, Tegal. Therefore, the generalization of the research
finding is applied only to the subject in question.
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1.4 Statement of the Problem
