THE APPLICATION OF STIMULUS, RESPONSE, AND REINFORCEMENT IN OBSERVING METHOD IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

In education field, the relationship between Teacher and Student is relationship that cannot be separated between the two. Without these two relationship, the teaching learning process cannot run properly. The relationship between Teacher and Student will bring up the stimulus, response, and reinforcement. Stimulus is stimuli or positive input given by the teacher in the form of motivation or values that can arouse student’s interest and coriousity. Response is the coriousity and student’s interest in the learning material prpvided by the teacher. Meanwhile, the reinforcement is thus always the occasion for things becoming better than they were. The objectives of this research are to describe the application of stimulus, response and reinforcement in lesson plan, and in teaching reading comprehension on tenth grade students of TBSM 1 at SMK Diponegoro Karanganyar. This research used descriptive qualitative. There are some methods of collecting data in this research. The first step is observation, then interview, and documentation.