Reading is one of important
English skills beside speaking, listening and writing. It is the
way to understand written messages. Although
reading is the main part of English skills, some research
results from Hamra (1993) and Kweldju (2001) indicated that
the ability of Indonesian students to read English texts was very low. It
is still a problem for most Indonesian students although they have studied
English from the elementary school. According to Yeselson (2000) students have
problems in reading comprehension, such as they cannot understand the text at
all, they misread the text by totally changing its meaning, and they misread
the text by taking words and phrases out of context. So this problem makes
student become easily frustrated, depressed, and at the end they lose
motivation to read because of incomprehension what they read.
The expectation of mastering English for senior high
school students has been unfulfilled. According to Kastaredja (2008) stated that the results of English
teaching and learning at senior high school has not been considered satisfying
by parents, professionals as well as the university lectures by seeing the fact
that most senior high school graduates neither could use their English for
reading the scientific books nor communicate orally. Furthermore, the National Examination (UN) of English
for senior high school learners is regarded as a hard job. The English test has lot of reading comprehension
test, it is 35 and 15 questions are
listening comprehension.
This indicates that the students need to have lots of portion of its
teaching and learning in order to prepare students to be fluent in reading
English texts.
Based on the
observation done by the researcher in MA Darut Taqwa Purwosari Pasuruan,
several problems related to the reading skill were found. First, the students
have difficulties in grammar and structure. They are confused when they use
tenses to determine the text. It makes the students cannot understand what they
were trying to comprehend the meaning. The second problem, the students have
difficulty in understanding text types in English. Most of them do not know the
English text types and use them. The third problem, the English reading
materials do not meet the students ‘needs. Teachers have difficulties to
provide and select reading materials which are suitable with their students’
needs and interest. They only use workbook from certain publisher and it is a
foundation’s policy.
Considering the explanation
above, it is very important to develop materials to improve English reading
skill. Tomlinson (1998, p. 2) states that materials refer to anything which are
used by the teachers or learners to facilitate the learning of a language.
Materials consist of the knowledge, skills, and attitude that must be learned
by the students in the framework of achieving the standard of competency.
Through Genre Based Approach (GBA), the target of comprehending the text type,
function and the generic structure can be gained. GBA is one of alternative
approach and technique that can be used by teacher in teaching learning
process. It becomes popular when the Competence Based Curriculum (KBK) was
introduced in Indonesia particularly for English language curriculum of senior
high schools. Then, implementing School Based Curriculum (KTSP) is still being
used. Furthermore, the 2013 curriculum is expected will be able to reinforce
the previous curriculum.
Developing the reading
materials in module form expects the students to be self-learning and active
with lot of opportunity in learning process. Hutchinson and Waters (1987) stated that module should have criteria such
as it contains interesting texts, enjoyable activities that engage the
learners’ thinking capacities, opportunities for learners to use their existing
knowledge and skills, and content which both learners and teachers can cope
with.
For those reasons, the
researcher wants to develop the English reading materials by using genre-based
approach in order to improve the students’ reading ability.
Statement of
the Problem
Based on the background of the study, the problem can
be formulated as follows: 1) What are the learning needs of 12th grade students of MA Darut
Taqwa Purwosari Pasuruan in learning English? And 2) What are the
appropriate reading materials for the 12th
grade students of MA Darut Taqwa Purwosari Pasuruan in learning English?
Objective of the Development
This study is
intended to find out the learning needs of the 12th grade students of MA Darut
Taqwa Purwosari Pasuruan and develop the
proper reading instructional module which suitable through genre-based approach
for the 12th grade students.
Significance
of the Study
This study has
two significances as follows: 1) Theoretically, the result of the research can
be references for those who want to conduct a research in developing reading
material using Genre-based approach, and 2) Practically, this research will
help the English teacher to get the variety of activities in teaching reading
skill using Genre-based approach in Senior High School and improve both
teachers and students ability to solve their problem in mastering reading
skill.
Specification of the
Product
The final product of this study is English
instructional module especially in reading which is developed to support the
learning needs in reading class at 12th grade student of MA Darut Taqwa
Purwosari. This study used authentic visuals materials and printed materials to
be develop in material module for teaching reading comprehension. These
materials were taken from some text book, newspapers, magazines, brochures, and
internet site or any other sources that appropriate to the study. Each text
provide with a pictures that tell particularly about the theme of the text.
Scope and Limitation
This study focuses on the development of reading
instructional module as a supplementary for teaching reading comprehension in
the first semester for 12th grade students in MA Darut Taqwa Purwosari. The
product of the supplementary reading materials limited only for discuss three text
types; they are narrative, explanation and discussion text. The materials
chosen are adopted from various sources such as internet, books, articles,
newspaper and many more.
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