INTRODUCTON

Motivation and Reading Comprehension of 8 Graders of Pinaglabanan National High School

Background of the study

In 1983, the Department of Education, Culture and Sports(DECS) required students

enrolled in Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED) to take up a 3-unit course in
Developmental Reading and another 3-unit course in Teaching Strategies in Communication
Arts, Focus on Reading. In 1986, the agency required students enrolled Bachelor in Secondary
Education to take up Developmental Reading and Research and Study Skills. Certainly, this steps
were a bridge and innovations that responded to the growing needs of demands of Education
on student-teacher reading. The enhancement of the basic reading skills of the students are
fundamentally important . This skill is decisively important to the child in all areas of learning. It
is then imperatively that Teachers are expected to be equipped with enough knowledge to
know what they are expected to do.

Reading is bringing meaning to and getting meaning from printed or written material
(Finochiaro and Bonomo in Tarigan, 1973:119). Reading typically is bringing meaning to rather
than gaining of meaning from the printed pages. John Horn 1879, points out that the author
does not relay or conveys ideas to the reader; he will stimulate it and make of his own based
from his previous experiences. It is much more than recognition of the symbols; rather it
includes the arousal of making and generating meaning from the printed symbols. Effective
reading includes experiencing, learning and thinking. It frequently requires reflection,
judgment, analysis, synthesis, selection and the critical evaluation of what is being read.
Certainly, the printed symbols and the sense of sight are necessary elements in reading
according to Smith and Dechant.???????

Villamin 1999, considers reading as the key that unlocks the door to the world of
enlightenment and enjoyment and the basic tool for learning in the content field. It is the most
important component in learning process and social interaction. Needless to say, reading is
social activity that engage human into the world. It helps the students to know better the world
around them and come to know better of themselves. It serves as the starting point in the
learning process of the students. This supported Smith and Dechant who believed that reading
is a key to success in school, to the development of out-of-school interests, to the enjoyment of
leisure time and to personal and social adjustment. It helps to adjust to her/his environment
from age mate, family, teachers and for the preparation of future occupation and social
responsibilities.
 One of the most difficult problems of the teacher nowadays is to promote new reading
skills to the students who have failed to acquire independent reading habits. Reading Habits
are

Educational Psychologists tell that purposeful practice is essential to the mastery of any
complex skill. Likely as not, the reading activities of students outside the school are virtually
nonexistent. Without sufficient follow up and practice it is difficult for the students to retain the
skills and knowledge taught to him in previous graders. It appears that teaching students inside
the school is merely not enough. Teachers must be aware of the need to calculate students
with a deep and abiding interest in reading. It is much well-known fact that many students
became uninterested in reading. The child who experiences frustration and displeasure when
he reads soon begin to avoid the process. Although a teacher can find many studies that will
support the teaching process, it is still hard to point out the exact interest of the students in
terms of reading. This requires a detective work with a lot of effort and involves observation,
questionnaire and interviews. Since Motivation is the indispensable ingredient of all learning
activity, a teacher should be a good merchandiser of reading. Students should be surrounded
with reading stimuli.

Motivation is the force of that stimulates behavior, provide direction to behavior, and
underlies the tendency to prevail (Bartol and Martin, 1998). Conversely, students must be
stimulated and energetic, must have a clear focus on what they are going to do and learn. But
this action must be voluntary (Vroom, 1964).

Insert researches about motivation in reading

Insert data about the reading percentages of Filipino (latest)

Based on the background of the study above, the researcher conducts Descriptive
Research on title “Effects of Motivation on the Reading Habits of 8 Graders of Pinaglabanan
National High School in Academic year 2018/2019”. This research aims to
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Statement of the Problem

This study aims to find out the effects of Motivation on the Reading Habits of 8 Graders
of Pinaglabanan National High School. More pecifically, this study seeks to answer the following
questions:

1. What are the effects of Motivation on the reading comprehension of grade 8?

2. What are the common reading motivation conducted by the teacher to the students?

3. How does the students perceived the motivation?

4. What kind of Motivation does the teacher provided?

Significance of the Study

This study seeks to find out if motivation affects the reading comprehension of Grade 8 of
Pinaglabanan National High School.

The input of this study will lead to better purposes.

The following may benefit from this study:

Students:

Teachers:

Future Reasearchers:

Scope and Delimitation

This study aimed to know the effects of Motivation on the reading habits of 8th Graders at
Pinaglabanan National high School, Pinaglabanan, Goa, Cam. Sur. Furthermore this study is
confirmed

Research Locale
1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study Reading is one of the important skills in
English and it gives many benefits for us. Reading is the window of the world. By reading,
people can get more knowledge and information from books, magazines, newspapers, and
others. Reading is the most important component in learning process and social interaction
because, first, reading is an indispensable communication tool in a civilized society. Second,
that the reading materials produced in any period of time in history most influenced by social
background. Third, developments, that over the period of the recorded history of reading has
led to two very different poles. (Grey in Tarigan, (1957:1099). Reading is bringing meaning to
and getting meaning from printed or written material (Finochiaro and Bonomo in Tarigan,
1973:119). Through the reading activity, the students can enlarge their knowledge and it can
also make them wise and respectful. Students’ reading ability must be developed. Teachers
have duties to develop their skill and ability. Everything teachers do in reading class should be
designed to build students’ ability to understand increasingly complex content of the texts. The
methods, techniques, and teaching media that is chosen and used by the teacher will influence
the success of teaching learning process and students achievement. In the teaching reading
activities a good method, media, and strategy are needed in this research. A good method can
be an 2 effort he students’ reading ability better. Media and strategy also make the class to be
alive during the reading lesson. By developing good method, technique and media students are
expected to be able to have an active learning. Active learning can make the students
interested in the reading lesson that given to them, not only silent or passive in the teaching
and learning process. There are four skills in learning process; listening, reading, speaking, and
writing. In this research, the writer will focus on reading skill, because in SMP Muhammadiyah 1
Ponorogo many students have problems in understand this subject and they always confused
to master the reading text. Reading is the important subject to be taught in the school. In
reading learning process the student must understand what the content of text to get the
information from it.

Reading is process to transfer the science from book to brain from writer to reader, and this
information will not received with the readers if they did not understand what the content of
the text. Other problem in reading is lack of vocabularies and also pronunciation. From that
many problems, they will have an opinion that English learning is a difficult in particular the
reading skill. The students know from their test result that they always failed in the reading
text. This matter will out from the goal of teaching learning. The solution of thus problems is
that the teacher should know more about approach, method, and strategy in learning English,
as the method will support the teacher way to make his teaching learning more effective. Based
on the explanation above, the writer wants to use a Context Clues Strategy as a teaching
technique. Context clues are information in the text, which 3 can be used to help deduce the
meaning of an unknown vocabulary word within the text.
Context clues are words, pictures, graphs, tables, and side notes, all of which might be included
in the text. Context clues can be clear and direct the reader easily to the meaning of the word.
Clear context clues will provide information about the definition or synonym of a word.
(Reardon, 2011:4). This strategy is appropriate to make the students understand about the
words, paragraph or text because they know about the definition, synonym, antonym, or
example about the words, phrase, paragraph, or text. The student will get more detail
information about the text and can understand it easily. It will help student to study to become
an expert of reading text. The advantage for teachers is they will get a new knowledge about
the teaching method to improve the teaching learning process and make the study more
attractive. Consequently it will improve the student motivation in reading. Based on the
background of the study above the researcher conducts classroom action research on title
“Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Context Clues Strategy At The
Eighth Grade Of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo In Academic Year 2015/2016”. 1.2

Research Problem

Based on background study above, the statement of problem of this research is “Does Context
Clues Strategy improve the student’s reading comprehension at the eighth grade of SMP
Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo in academic year 2015/2016?” 4 1.3

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of study is to know the improvement the student’s reading comprehension at the
eighth grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo through Context Clues Strategy in academic
year 2015/2016.

1.4 The Significant of the Study

The result of this expected to be useful for: 1.4.1 The Students To motivate and make
enthusiasm the students in the learning process especially in reading teaching and helpful for
students will be able to create more enjoyable and meaningful learning.

1.4.2 The Teacher This method makes the teacher easy in teaching reading and this expect to
give useful contribution in teaching reading and give another way for the teacher develop
student’s reading.

1.4.3 The School This research useful to improve the quality of education and develop English
language teaching of the school

1.4.4 The Researcher The researcher will improve his knowledge in teaching reading method
and have experience in observation and apply with classroom action research at school.
 5 1.5 Scope and Limitation Scope : There are some methods in teaching reading such as:
reading guide, context clues strategy, jigsaw, but in this research the researcher use context
clues reading strategy as teaching reading. Limitation: : The researcher used context clues
reading to improve student’s reading comprehension at eighth grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 1
Ponorogo

1.6 Definition of Key-Terms To avoid mistakes and misunderstanding terms and content of the
topic in this study, it is necessary to define the key-terms used in this study: Reading Ability :
The efficiency to draw meaning from the printed page and interpret this information
appropriately (Grabe and Stoller, 2002:09) Context Clues Strategy : Context clues are
information in the text, which can be used to help deduce the meaning of an unknown
vocabulary word within the text. Context clues are words, pictures, graphs, tables, and side
notes, all of which might be included in the text. Context clues can be clear and direct the
reader 6 easily to the meaning of the word. Clear context clues will provide information about
the definition or synonym of a word. (Reardon, 2011:4).