Teaching Reading to Get Specific
Information to the First Year Students of SLTP Negeri 72
Action Research
Linawati
The aim of this study is to
improve the teaching learning process on reading focussing on the teaching of
scanning at the first grade of SLTP Negeri 72 Central Jakarta. This study was conducted in one cycle using
different techniques of teaching in the third “Cawu” of the 2000 / 2001 academic
year.
Based on the identified problem, the
researcher taught how to find specific information in reading text by
explaining how to answer Yes/No questions and W-h questions and How … questions
by using pictures and wall-chart . The
use of these
techniques was intended to motivate students’ interest in learning to get
specific information in a reading text, so students would
not get bored , and to help them to better understand the reading
materials.
The result of the research revealed that
there was improvement in the students’ achievement. By the end of the study the scores of the
students’ were higher than before.
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Linawati. (2005, December). Teaching
reading to get specific information to the first year students of SLTP Negeri
72 Jakarta: Action research. Paper presented
at the 53rd TEFLIN International conference,
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