Improving students' reading comprehension of descriptive text by using clustering technique (a classroom action research in the second year students of MTs S Unwaanunnajah Pondok Aren)
| Main Author: | Yuliana Friska |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
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Daftar Isi:
- This study is categorized as the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method in which to identify and to solve the problem on students� reading comprehension. It is initiated through the interview the teacher and through the observation in the VIII A at MTs S Unwaanunnajah Pondok Aren; considered as the class whose reading test score are very low. The amount of students in that class is 36. In this Classroom Action Research, the writer implements the Hopkins design which consists of four phases. Those are planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Meanwhile, the data is derived among from the test (pretest and posttest), interview, and observation. Therefore, this study is included into quantitative descriptive research. The findings of this study are: (1) related to the test result, there was 20.28% improvement of students� mean reading score after using Clustering technique; It gained from the pretest result, there were two students who passed the KKM. Then in the result of posttest in cycle 1, there were 11 or 31% students in the class who passed the KKM considering their mean score of the test is 62.78. Next in the result of posttest in the cycle 2, there is 30 or 83% students who passed the KKM in which their mean score of reading test derived 73.19. (2) related to the observation result showed that the students were more active and interested in learning reading activity in the classroom. Indeed, they could analyze the schematic structures of the text using clustering. (3) related to the interview result, it could be known that the students� reading comprehension in term of descriptive text has improved and also assisted the teacher in finding the appropriate strategy in teaching reading descriptive text.