TEACHING READING BY COMBINING FRAYER MODEL WITH GREET AND GO STRATEGY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE FOR JUNIOR HIGH
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JURNAL
DEDI SAPUTRA NIM.10040398
ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT
COLLEGE OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION PGRI WEST SUMATERA
PADANG 2014
TEACHING READING BY COMBINING FRAYER MODEL WITH GREET AND GO STRATEGY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE FOR JUNIOR HIGH
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Dedi Saputra*)
**) Armilia Riza
Staf Pengajar Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat ABSTRAK
Pengajaran reading (membaca) merupakan suatu keterampilan yang penting dalam Bahasa Inggris yang harus diajarkan oleh seorang guru kepada siswa. Pentingnya pengajaran reading maka, guru harus kreatif untuk membuat pembelajaran reading agar lebih menyenangkan dengan menerapkan strategi yang menarik dan tepat dalam pembelajaran reading. Dalam makalah ini, penulis membahas tentang bagaimana mengajarkan reading melalui gabungan dua strategi yaitu frayer Model dengan Greet and Go. Dalam aplikasi dua strategi ini, penulis menggunakan strategi pertama yaitu Frayer Model sebagai strategi awal pembelajaran. Strategi ini diawali dengan guru memberi siswa teks pelajaran, guru memberikan sebuah diagram dan menjelaskan apa isi diagram serta meminta mengisi diagram bersama kelompok dengan kata-kata yang mudah dimengerti. Terakhir guru meminta siswa untuk mendiskusikan hasilnya. penulis menggunakan strategi yang kedua yaitu Greet and Go yang digunakan dipertengahan pembelajaran, guru memberikan kartu berwarna kepada setiap grup dan memberikan perintah. Setelah itu, guru meminta grup untuk menuliskan paragraf kedalam kartu itu dan meminta siswa membacakan paragraf tersebut bergiliran. Terakhir guru meminta siswa membuat prediksi tentang isi paragraf tersebut dan diskusikan bersama-sama.
Key words: Frayer Model, Greet and Go, Teaching Reading
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INTRODUCTION
Reading is one of crucial skills that should be gained by the students in learning English after listening, before speaking and writing. It connects the writer or author to the reader. It will build a communication between the readers and writers in understanding a printed material or text. Through reading, readers can get much knowledge that can be useful in getting information. In learning English, especially reading, students should be able to sound out the printed word and also comprehend the text. Thus, reading can increase their knowledge, and they get information or ideas from what they have read. In brief, when they read a text, they should get the ideas and the important information of the text.
There are some problems that writer found at school when the teaching learning process happened. Firts,the students have lack of vocabulary. When the teacher asked some questions to the students, they were confused to give respond even they just keep silent.
Second,some of students cannot understand what the text is about. They could not catch the main idea from the text. They are always confused when the teacher asked them about the
content of the text. Third, by the teacher, when the teacher taught the students by using a strategy. This strategy can not attract to the students. The students still bored and confuse with the materials. Considering with the situation above, the teacher need a new strategy that can be solved those problem. The writer hopes that a new strategy can help the teacher and students to understand about the materials in teching English. The strategies is combine Frayer Model strategy and Greet and Go Strategies.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Reading
Reading is a process of understanding a text. Everyone needs reading to refresh their knowledge in many sectors. It is also one of important skills in English subject. Reading is very important for students to get more information from what they read. It can expand their knowledge too.
Nunan (2003:68) states that reading is a fluent process of reader combining information from a text and their own background of reading to build meaning. It means that to get meaning from the text the students try to make relation between information in the text with the
students thinking or experience. Besides, the students will get much information by reading a text.
Teaching Reading
Teaching reading is very important in teaching English. It is an activity to improve students’s knowledge and reading ability. The teacher should know how to teach reading well to the student then they will understand the lesson easily.
Nunan (2003:68), teaching reading usually has at least two aspects such as; first, it can be refer to teaching learners who are learning to read for the very first time. Second, teaching reading refers to teaching learners who already have reading skills in their first language. So, in teaching reading the teacher can guide the students to learn how to read with skill in comprehending a reading text on reading subject.
Definition of Frayer Model Strategy
Definition of frayer model strategy is a strategy that helps students make predictions about the text. This strategy has been applied when the `teacher taught reading.
Kinberg (2007:26) writes that Frayer Model Strategy is a strategy that focused on a graphic organizer that students use to help them understand the meaning of concept they are learning and distinguish that concept from others they know or learn. It means that, this strategy helps students in understanding a concept or content of the lesson after they learned it.
Procedure of Frayer Model Strategy
In teaching reading process, the teacher should have some procedures to manage the students in the class.
Urquhart (2012:103) explains that there are some procedures of Frayer Model Strategy:
1. Assign the concept or word from the text to be studied
2. Explain all of the attributes of the Frayer Model to be completed.
3. Model for students using the Frayer Model with an easy word or concept from a familiar text.
4. Have students work in pairs and complete their model diagram using the assigned or word. Students may enjoy
constructing their diagram with chart paper and markers or with a computer graphics software program.
5. Once the diagram is complete, have students share their work with other students
Advantages of Frayer Model Strategy
Frayer Model strategy is a good strategy that teachers can apply in learning reading process. This strategy will give advantages for students in learning process. According to Adlit (2008:1) the advantages of Frayer Model Strategy are:
1. It promotes students’ critical thinking 2. It draws student’s perior knowledge to
build connections among new concepts and creates a visual reference by which students learn to compare attributes and examples.
Defenition of Greet and Go Strategy
Great and Go strategy is a strategy that helps students make predictions about the text.
This strategy is applied when the `teacher taught reading. According to Boreen (2009:107) Greet and Go strategy is an interactive strategy
to have students use prior knowledge to make predictions about what they are going to read or learn. It means that this strategy helps students have knowledge to make predictions about the text or what the text tells about.
Procedure of Greet and Go Strategy
In this strategy, there are some procedures of Great and Go strategy that can be implemented in teaching reading. Then there are some experts explain the procedure of Great and Go Strategy that can be implemented in teaching learning process.
Boreen (2009:107) writes that the procedures of Greet and Go Strategy are:
1. Divide students into small groups of 3-5 students.
2. Give each student a premade index card or other slip of paper on which you have written a different phrase or sentence from the text book or content.
3. Ask students to circulate around the room and read each other the text on their cards but not make notes.
4. After 5 minutes (or so), students return to their small group (if assigned) to
make prediction about the content if the upcoming assigned text or lesson.
5. Call on each individual student to share their predictions and explain their reasoning.
Advantages of Greet and Go Strategy
Greet and Go strategy is a good strategy that teachers can apply in learning reading process. This strategy will give advantages for students and help understand more about their lesson. According to Pearse (2011:143) the advantages of Greet and Go Strategy is a great strategy when the lesson loaded with vocabulary and helps students to make prediction about the text. This startegy gives advantages to help students easier to predict a text and make them understand more about the text.
Teaching Reading by Using Combining Tea Party with Read Around Strategy
1. Pre- teaching activities
This is the begining activities which consists of:
a. Teacher greets the students
b. The teacher checks the students’
attendance.
c. Teacher prepares student physically to learn.
2. Whilst- Teaching Activities
Whilst-teaching activity is done after doing pre-teaching activity. In this activity, the teacher and the students discuss about the material.
a. Exploration
In this part, the teacher uses Frayer Model strategy that has some procedures.
1) Teacher assigns the concept or word from the text to be studied.
2) The teacher explains all of the attributes of the Frayer Model to be completed.
3) Model for students using the Frayer Model with an easy word or concept from a familiar text
4) Teacher asks students work in pairs and complete their model
diagram using the assigned or word.
5) Teacher asks students share their work with other students or in the whole class.
b. Elaboration
1) Teacher gives each student a card or other slip of paper on which you have written a different phrase or sentence from the text book or content.
2) Teacher asks students to circulate around the room and read each other the text on their cards but not make notes,
3) After 5 minutes (or so), students return to their small group (if assigned) to make prediction about the content if the upcoming assigned text or lesson.
4) Call on each individual student to share their predictions and explain their reasoning.
5) Teacher and students discuss about the material
C. Confirmation
a. Teacher ask students about the material
b. The teacher ask the students to conclude about the material
3. Post-Teaching Activities
There are last activities that should be done by teacher in the classroom. In this activity, the teacher checks the students’ understanding about the lesson and then after discussing the teacher gives homework to the students.
a. The teacher and students conclude the lesson.
b. The teacher distributes a new text to the students as a home work.
c. The teacher closes the teaching learning process.
CONCLUSSIONS
Reading is one of skills that students should be mastered in teaching reading process. Through reading,
readers can get much knowledge that can be useful in getting information.
Besides, reading can increase their knowledge, and they get information or ideas from what they have read. In brief, when they are reading a text they should get the ideas and the important information of the text.
In teaching reading process, the teacher should have a strategy that helps the teacher easier to control the students and it makes the students interested to study. Strategy is really important aspect for the teacher, I can help teacher easier to manage students in classroom. The writer uses two strategies that can be applied by combining Frayer Model with Greet and Go Strategies. Those strategy will help the teacher easier to manage the students. Besides, by combining strategy it can make the students comprehend the text in teaching reading process.
REFERENCES
Boreen, Jean. 2009. Mentoring Beginning Teachers, Guiding, Reflecting, and
Coaching. Chicago: Stenhouse Publishers.
Kinberg, Morgot. 2007. Teaching Reading in the Content Areas for Elementry Teacher. Hungtington Beach: Shell Education.
Nunan, David. 2003. Practical English Language Teaching. New York:
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Pearse, Margie. 2011. Teaching Numeracy: 9 Critical Habits to Ignite Mathematical Thinking.United States: Library of Congress.
Urquhart, Vicki. 2012. Teaching reading in the content areal. New york: dtc belvard.
