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2.3 The Students’ Active Participation in the Teaching Learning Process of
Reading
The students’ active participation in the teaching learning process has important role in order to achieve the optimal outcome of teaching reading in
class. In the teaching learning process, a teacher guides her students to be active in class through encourage the students to be active in doing meaningful learning
activities, discussion, practice etc. The
students’ participation active learning is anything that involves the students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing Bonwell
and Eison, 1991:5. It is like the students interact with the material or task, participate in the teaching learning process in class or collaborate with each other.
In this research, the students’ active participation means the students’ involvement in the class activities during the teaching learning process of reading through
Webbing Technique . The students’ active participation is needed in the teaching
learning process in order to improve their ability in reading comprehension achievement.
The teacher should make the teaching learning process more interesting to encourage her students to participate in the teaching learning process. The
examples are selecting suitable techniques and materials. That is because the success of implementing a teaching is determined by the choice of materials and
the use of appropriate techniques Tarigan and Tarigan, 1987:9. In this research, Webbing Technique was applied in the teaching learning process to motivate and
make the students active in the classroom. The indicators that were
used to monitor the students’ active participation in the teaching learning process were as follows:
1. Showing eagerness in learning the descriptive texts about people by using
webbing technique. 2.
Completing the web in groups. 3.
Showing cooperation with their groups in making the web based on the text.
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4. Doing the reading exercises given by the teacher in the form of multiple
choice questions responsibly. The students are categorized active if at least three of four indicators of the
students ’ active participation above are fulfilled. This research is considered to be
successful if 75 of the students or twenty students are active in the teaching learning process of reading through Webbing Technique.
2.4 The Meaning, Purpose and the Language Features of the Descriptive Text
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