commit to user to learn English. For some of them, studying is a must which they have to do, not a
need. Teaching English in such situation needs extra patience and effort.
6. Research Subjects
The subject of this classroom action research is 3En 32 third grade students of English department, faculty of teacher training and education academic year 2010-
2011 that consists of 30 students includes recourse students. The subject of this research is the regular students which is 30 students. In general 3B class has a good
reading. The other reason of selecting this class, it has lowest average reading score among its parallel class. In the previous semester exam too much of them got F and
the average score was lower than 60 is just a point above the class because in reading teaching learning process the students are very passive. The never ask questions about
related topic, they rarely ask about new vocabulary. Furthermore, they rarely bring their text books and they are reluctant to join in reading class. Even worse they
cannot answer WH-questions, reference questions and they cannot indentify paragraph topic, important massage, and the mean idea. The researcher did interview
and questionnaire the course it the text book. They said that the text book it too difficult; there are many difficult words in the text and the text is too long and the text
has no connection with their lives so they had no motivation to read. The researcher is the reading teacher in this class has tries to overcome the problem by changing the
text book by different author by the class atmosphere remains the same. So in this class action research uses directed reading material in solving students’ problem in
comprehending text and their motivation to read. By using directed reading materials, it is hoped can increase their motivation as the result their reading comprehension
improves as well. This research is also carried out with the collaborator. He is an English
lecturer from the same faculty with researcher. The collaborator and the researcher discussed together before, during and after the treatment to contribute ideas, opinions,
and share experiences in steps in this classroom action research.
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F. Research Design
