| dc.description.abstract | SUMMARY
IMPROVING THE CLASS VIII E STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
ACHEVEMENT AND THEIR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION BY USING PICTURES
IN SERIES AT SMPN 1 KALIBARU BANYUWANGI IN THE 2012/2013
ACADEMIC YEAR; Wahyu Dyah Purwaningrum; 080210401004; 2013; 54 pages;
English Language Study Program; Language and Arts Department; Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education; Jember University.
This Classroom Action Research was intended to improve class VIII E
students’ reading comprehension achievement and their active participation by using
pictures in series at SMPN 1 Kalibaru Banyuwangi in the 2012/2013 academic year.
Based on the preliminary study in the form of semi structured interview with the
English teacher of SMPN 1 Kalibaru Banyuwangi, it was found that the students of
class VIII E still faced difficulties in comprehending texts. Besides, they also have a
problem dealing with the active participation in joining the reading class. That thing
happens because they do not have enough knowledge of English, lack of background
knowledge, and lack of vocabulary.
The data collection methods involved reading comprehension test and the
observation in the form of checklist to get the primary data. The action was
implemented in two cycles in order to achieve the objectives of this classroom action
research. The first cycle was done in three meetings included the reading
comprehension test. The result of the classroom observation showed that 65.62% in
meeting 1 and 74.19% in meeting 2, of the students were active during the teaching
learning process. It showed that there was improvement of the students’ active
participation from meeting 1 to meeting 2, but it had not achieved the objective of the
research that was 75% or more of the students who were active in reading activity. In
addition, the result of reading comprehension test in the first cycle had not achieved
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the criteria of success of the research that was 75% or more of the students got ≥75 in
the reading comprehension test. The percentage of the students who got score ≥75
was only 23 students or 74.19% of 32 students. Based on the result of the first cycle
above, the second cycle was necessary to be conducted. Some revision had been
made to solve the problems found in the first cycle. The classroom observation and
reading comprehension test in the second cycle showed an improvement. In the
classroom observation, the students’ active participation showed that 74.19% in
meeting 1 and 86.20% in meeting 2 of the students actively participated in the
teaching learning process. So, the result of the observation in meeting 1 and meeting
2 had achieved the objectives of the research. In reading comprehension test, the
percentage of the students who got score ≥75 was 29 students, or 93.54% of 32
students. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the actions in cycle 2 were
successful because the results of classroom observation and reading comprehension
test achieved the objectives of the research.
Finally, it can be summarized that the use of pictures in series could improve
the class VIII E students’ reading comprehension achievement and their active
participation at SMPN 1 Kalibaru Banyuwangi. | en_US |
