A STUDY OF DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY (DRTA) IN TEACHING READING SPOOF TEXT AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH PITURUH IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

This study has purposes to describe the implementation of Directed Reading Thinking Activity in teaching reading Spoof text and to find out the problems that students get in using Directed Reading Thinking Activity strategy in the learning process. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative, the methods of collecting the data in this research are observation and questionnaire. Having analyzed the data, the teacher’s activities include the five steps of Directed Reading Thinking Activity. The steps are activating the student’s prior knowledge, making prediction, reading the text, confirming or revising the prediction and repeating steps two through four until all parts of the lesson have been covered. Then, the researcher finds that there are four main problems that the students have. They are the duration of time, the difficulty in using DRTA strategy, the difficulty in translating their prediction, and the difficulty to make sentence for their prediction.

Key Words: Directed Reading Thinking Activity, Teaching Reading, Spoof Text