USING GIST (GENERATING INTERACTION BETWEEN SCHEMATA AND TEXT) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXTS (Classroom Action Research at Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019 )

Sari, Henti (2019) USING GIST (GENERATING INTERACTION BETWEEN SCHEMATA AND TEXT) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXTS (Classroom Action Research at Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019 ). Other thesis, IAIN BENGKULU.

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Henti Sari. (2019). Using Gist (Generating Interaction Between Schemata And Text) Strategy To Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Of Short Functional Texts (Classroom Action Research at Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019 ). Advisor 1: Dr. Syamsul Rizal, M.Pd, Advisor 2: Detti Lismayanti, M.Hum. The problems of the research were eighth grade students of SMPN 05 kota bengkulu still have problems in understanding reading texts, especially short functional texts; the teacher‟s and students‟ interaction in the classroom were still low; the monotonous activities like doing exercise became the dominant activities do by students in the classroom; the students could not understand the text perfecly because they do not understand most vocabularies that they find in reading texs. The aim of this research was to investigate weather GIST (Generating Interaction between Schemata and Text) Teaching Strategy can improve students‟ reading comprehension of short functional texts at the eighth grade students of SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. This research applied Classroom Action Research (CAR) method. The respondents of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019 that consisted of 32 students. The data in this research were collected by giving the students reading comprehension test, observation – identifying students‟ and teacher‟s interaction in the classroom, interview – identifying deeply the students‟ problems during the lesson, and documentation – preparing authentic evidence for the research. The result of this research showed that GIST Teaching Strategy could improve the students‟ reading comprehension of short functional texts, especially at eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Kota Bengkulu. The improvement was showed by the students‟ average score in pre-assessment test (60.10) that was included into “Moderate” category; and average score in cycle III test was (75.96) that was included into “Good” category. It means that the students got (15.86) point of improvement after getting actions for three cycles. The most important progress for students were in their dicipline, attitude, and actively respond learning activities during the lesson in the classroom. It created better classroom atmosphere and better learning motivation for students in learning English.

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