The Use of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension: A Classroom Action Research on the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012

Kamilia, Noor Rahayu (2012) The Use of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension: A Classroom Action Research on the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012. Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Reading is one of the skills which must be taught to Junior High School students as one of the teaching and learning activities in English class. Reading determines the successful of any subject matters. All depend on the competence of reading comprehension. But in reality, the students argue that reading is not interesting and they are still wrong to understand meaning of the text. They have difficulties in analysis, interpretation and make summary of the text. The students’ need something produced some observation to make them more active and stimulate their interest in order to create an enjoyable atmosphere of English reading activity so that they can build up their reading comprehension particularly to their understanding the content of texts given. The writer uses the interesting strategy to make the students enjoy and more active in the class. It is DRTA stategy, it can improve the reading comprehension of the students. The objective of this research is to improve reading comprehension by using DRTA strategy on the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012. This research applied a classroom action research. The research is conducted in the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012, especially in VIII A. The number of the students in the classroom is 22 students; 7 female and 15 male. The average score percentage of the students’ in reading comprehension in cycle I is 65%. In cycle II, the average score percentage of the students’ in reading comprehension is 70%. And in cycle III, the average score percentage of the students’ in reading comprehension is 80%. So, there is an increasing of the average score percentage of the students’ in reading comprehension in every cycle. Besides, the students and teacher’s activity are improved and the problem that faced by the teacher are decreased in every cycle. This research concludes that DRTA strategy can improve the reading comprehension on the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus in the academic year of 2011/2012. Thus, the writer suggests that a teacher must be creative, active, and always give motivation and support to the students in order to create good learning experience by using DRTA as strategy in teaching English reading.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: Advisor: (1) Ahdi Riyono, SS, M.Hum (2) Drs. Suprihadi, M.Pd
Kata Kunci: reading comprehension, DRTA strategy
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Filologi. Linguistik. > Bahasa. Teori linguistik. Tata Bahasa. > Tata Bahasa
Bahasa dan sastra > Filologi. Linguistik. > Bahasa. Teori linguistik. Tata Bahasa. > Pembelajaran bahasa
Pendidikan > Teori dan praktek pendidikan > Membaca (Umum)
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Users 2 not found.
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2012 06:51
Last Modified: 09 Oct 2012 06:51
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/377

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