| dc.description.abstract | This classroom action research was intended to increase the eighth year
students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kalisat
Jember. Based on the preliminary study conducted in SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kalisat
by doing an informal interview with the English teacher, it was revealed that the
eighth year students still could not achieve the target score of English yet. The
standard requirement score was 65. This should be achieved by at least 70% or 22
students. In fact, there were only 45.1% or 14 students who got the standard required
score
To solve the problems, a classroom action research with cycle model was
conducted collaboratively with the English teacher. It was conducted in two cycles in
which each cycle covered four stages included planning the action, implementation of
the action, classroom observation and evaluation, and data analysis and reflection of
the action. The technique applied in this research was Numbered Heads Together
(NHT).
This research was considered successful if at least 70% of the students got the
score ≥65 and 70% of them actively involved in the teaching and learning process of
reading comprehension by using Numbered Heads Together. However, based on the
results of the observation and the reading test, the actions in the Cycle 1 failed to
achieve the target requirement. There were 60.86% who were actively involved in
teaching reading process. This meant that the students’ active participation had not
achieved the target requirement, that was 70% of the students who actively involved. | en_US |
