ABSTRACT

Improving the Teaching Learning Process of Reading Descriptive Texts at the Elementary School Name : Evan Rosana S.D NIM : 072084274 Study Program : S-1 Department : English Department Faculty : Language and Art Institution : State University of Surabaya Advisor : Prof. Dr. Susanto This study discusses how the teaching reading should be conducted to get the expected process at SDN Putat 01 Madiun, since there are some weaknesses appear during the teaching learning process at SDN Putat 01 Madiun. The weaknesses could be identified from the students poor understanding of the lesson. The students are still hard to understand the material which is given by the teacher because the teacher teachs three materials straightly in one meeting. The underlying causes of the teachers weaknesses can be traced from some mistakes discover in her lesson plan. Furthermore, the researcher wanted to improve the teaching learning process by revising the teachers lesson plan. As this research is an action research, the researcher does a collaborative cooperation with the teacher. In order to answer the research questions of how does the teacher conducts the teaching learning process after the lesson plan is revised and how do the students participate in the teaching learning process after the lesson plan is revised, the researcher employed unstructured observation sheet to collect the data in the class. In correspond with the implementation of improved learning; observation and reflection were also executed in the same time. After improving learning using revised lesson plan was initialized and observed by two observers, in fact, the teaching learning process evidently showed some significant improvements in teacher-students interactions and performances as compared to the prior teaching descriptive text process. Hence, there are several suggestions for the English teachers. The teachers have to be careful in making a lesson plan, as they must pay attention to students potentials, needs, interests, and environment, so every indicator in the lesson plan can be well-achieved. Furthermore, teachers have to be more creative to develop the basic framework of curriculum and competence standard as well. Keywords: improving, teaching, process, lesson plan