Kirtti Senior High School. The writer asked students about their difficulties in learning English, especially in reading. One of them
said that she could identify the characters, understand the material, find the specific information, and answer some questions according
the texts. Meanwhile, one of them felt that reading is quite difficult to master. She said that she had little interest to read and she had
difficult to identify what the content of the text about. She also did not have enough knowledge in general view of the reading texts, students
said that the text is not interesting enough to be read. Because of those reasons, she had difficulties in answering some questions. Besides
that, the teacher’s teaching techniques did not make students comprehend the reading text. Consequently, their reading
comprehension is low.
2. Data from the Observation
Based on the observation conducted by the writer on April 2013, it was known that in general, during the teaching learning process in the
classroom, 80 of the reading activities were done by the teacher. Hence, there was less opportunity for students to be active in the classroom. After
teacher gave reading text, the teacher read the text aloud and asked students to follow her. Some students followed her but some students did
not. Then, the teacher gave instruction for students to translate the text into Bahasa Indonesia. Next, the students were asked to answer questions
related to the texts and find some information. While the teacher explained the lesson in front of the classroom, the
students paid attention, however some of them were busy with their mobile phones and chair mate. Texting, chatting, and any other activities
sometimes they did while the teacher explained the lesson.Therefore, when the teacher finished explaining and asked the students the purpose,
content, and any other questions related to the text, they could not answer them.
3. Pre-test
In completing the data, the writer did the pre-test before conducting the Classroom Action Research. It was held on June 5
th
2013. There were 20 students of seventh grade followed the test. The test consists of 20
questions in multiple choices. From the pre-test, it was known that students’ mean score was 50.
The data of mean score from pre-test showed that there were 5 students passed the Criterion of Minimum Completeness KKM. The
standard of KKM of the school is 60. There were 15 students did not pass or still below the standard of KKM. From the data, it was known that
students’ achievement and comprehension in reading was poor and low.
B. The Implementation of Pre Questioning in Reading Activity
1. Cycle 1
a. Planning
In this phase, the writer made a planning for the action based upon the problems faced by students toward reading comprehension. The
writer determined the selected material and exercises into a lesson plan. Then, some texts were chosen as the text to be taught for
students. In the lesson plan, there were some kind of pre questioning activity relate the texts that should be answered before the students
read the texts. Beside of making a lesson plan, the writer also prepared the post
test 1 to get numeric data, in order to know whether there were students improvement scores from pretest to post test.
