USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE ELEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS OF SMK NEGERI 2 KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015


Author (Penulis)

SINTA SRI WAHYUNINGSIH
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

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11.1.01.08.0187

Abstract

ABSTRACT Sinta sriwahyuningsih: Using Graphic Organizers to Improve Reading Comprehension Skill of the Eleventh Year of SMK Negeri 2 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015, Skripsi, English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Nusantara PGRI Kediri University, 2015. Keywords: classroom action research(CAR), graphic organizer (GO), reading comprehension. Reading comprehension as the way students get the required information from a passage has to be done as efficiently as possible. In fact the researcher found that the students’ reading comprehension still unsatisfying. The reading problem arised when they struggle to understand general idea of the passage, they incorrectly interpreted main idea with specific details, they lack of vocabulary and they failed in determining the key point of the sentence. To solve this problem, this research used GO. The main purpose of applying GO in learning reading helped students in identifying the required information, classifying them in templates which are creatively constructed by the readers themselves and they also guide readers in drafting similar information in a different context. The purpose of this research are to describe how GO strategy can improve the students’reading comprehension and to find out the improvement of students’ reading comprehension after being taught by using GO strategy. This study was conducted by using classroom action research that has two cycles within. The subject of the research was the students of XI Multimedia 1 class in academic year 2014/2015 which consisted of 30 students. The instruments of collecting data were qualitative data (observation sheet, and field notes) and quantitative (reading test). The process of employ GO strategy can improve the students’ reading comprehension: (1) familiarized the students with what graphic organizers are and how to use them effectively while reading a text. (2) Trained them with example to illustrate the use of hieararcy GO. (3) Divided the students in group work fairly based on their ability. (4) Gave them set of blank hierarcy GO (5) Distributed them the instruction text. (6) Asked the students to complete the blank GO in group discussion. (7) Each group present their result of group work with the class. (8) The teacher review the students work and generate the classroom discussion on the effective use of graphic organizer. The result of this research shows that using GO can improve students’ reading comprehension. The improvement happens to the scores. There was 76% of the students passed the test in cycle 1 and 90% of the students passed the test in cycle 2. Based on the result of the research, It can be conclude that GO strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension in reading instruction text. Therefore, it is recommended that teacher should give the explicit model during implementing GO in teaching reading and use another types of GO based on the appropriate need for better learning process and better output.

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PUBLISHED

2015-12-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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