Improving Reading Comprehension of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA 1 Gebog Kudus in the Academic Year 2013/2014 by Using Read Pair Share (A Classroom Action Research)

Khomsah, Fitriani (2014) Improving Reading Comprehension of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA 1 Gebog Kudus in the Academic Year 2013/2014 by Using Read Pair Share (A Classroom Action Research). Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Reading comprehension is a process of understanding of the text. Teaching reading comprehension of tenth grade students is not easy because the students’ vocabulary is not ample, some of the students feel bored and just listen what the teacher read, and the teacher just pay attention to the result of the learning, not the process to make they enjoyed to understand the text or use technique to teach reading. This condition also happened in SMA 1 Gebog Kudus. After analyzing the problems, the writer assumes to use a technique that is read pair share to improve the students’ reading comprehension. When this technique is used, the students can solve the problem in reading which needs analyzing, since they do not work individually with own limited comprehension. They will take turns describing the content to their partner. The objective of this research is: To find out how Read Pair Share technique can improve the reading comprehension of the tenth grade students of SMA 1 Gebog in the academic year 2013/2014. The classroom action research is used to design this research which followed by two cycles. Each cycle is conducted through four steps; they are: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. This research is conducted at the tenth grade students of SMA 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014. The tenth grade consists of nine classes; they are class X-1 until X-9. In this research, the writer chooses class X-8 that consists of 33 students to conduct the research. In the result, the students’ reading comprehension improves from cycle I until cycle II. In the first cycle, the average score of the students’ reading comprehension is 69, there were 12 students got score under passing grade. The percentage of the students that got score above passing grade from the pre-cycle until first cycle was improved about 9%. In cycle II, the average score of reading comprehension was 75.15. There is a significant improvement about 11% of the previous cycle, and there was 8 students were still got score under passing grade. Besides, the students and teacher’s activity are improved in every cycle and the students’ problems are decreased. Therefore, the writer can conclude that the use of read pair share technique can improve students’ reading comprehension at the tenth grade students of SMA 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 Therefore, writer recommends some suggestions. First, teacher must know first the technique before applying it in order that the teacher is not confused during teaching and learning process, and also the teacher always supervise the students. The students must take part in teaching learning process in sharing the content of text so the result can be success.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: Pembimbing I : Agung Dwi Nurcahyo, S.S, M.Pd.
Kata Kunci: Reading Comprehension and Read Pair Share Technique
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Bahasa Inggris
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: asih winarti
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2014 07:46
Last Modified: 26 Aug 2014 07:46
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/3219

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