Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (A Classroom Action Research At The Eighth Grade Students Of Smp Negeri 1 Ngadirojo In The Academic Year 2011/2012)
Penulis Utama
:
Yuanita Candra Dewi Swardiana
NIM / NIP
:
K2208051
×This research aims at: (1) identifying whether Directed Reading-
Thinking Activity (DR-TA) improves the students’ reading comprehension, and
(2) describing the students’ motivation when DR-TA is implemented in the
English class of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Ngadirojo.
The method used in this research was a Classroom Action Research
(CAR). The research was conducted in two cycles at the eighth grade of SMP
Negeri 1 Ngadirojo from 14th April to 10th May 2012. The research data were
collected by using techniques of observation, interview, questionnaires, and tests
(pre-test and post-test). The qualitative data were analyzed through assembling the
data, coding the data, comparing the data, building interpretations, and reporting
the outcomes. Meanwhile, the qualitative data were analyzed through descriptive
statistic.
The research findings show that the use of DR-TA could improve
students’ reading comprehension and students’ motivation of English class. The
improvement of students’ reading comprehension includes: (1) students could
determine the main idea of the paragraph; (2) the students could find the purpose
of the text, including moral value in narrative text; (3) the students were be able to
determine the detail information; (4) the students could infer and grasp meaning
of words; and (5) students could determine references. The improvement of
students’ motivation includes: (1) students became active during the lesson; (2)
students were brave to take risk; (3) students enjoyed the challenge in doing the
tasks; (4) almost all of students participated in doing the tasks; and (5) students
paid attention to the teaching and learning process.
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Penulis Utama
:
Yuanita Candra Dewi Swardiana
Penulis Tambahan
:
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NIM / NIP
:
K2208051
Tahun
:
2012
Judul
:
Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (A Classroom Action Research At The Eighth Grade Students Of Smp Negeri 1 Ngadirojo In The Academic Year 2011/2012)
