THE USE OF THINK ALOUD STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL (A Classroom Action Research at The Second Grade Students of SMP PGRI Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019)

Mofid, Miftakhul (2019) THE USE OF THINK ALOUD STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING SKILL (A Classroom Action Research at The Second Grade Students of SMP PGRI Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019). Diploma thesis, IAIN BENGKULU.

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Abstract

The objective of this research is to implement of Think Aloud Strategy in order to improve students’ reading comprehension at grade eighth SMP PGRI Bengkulu. The researcher used classroom action research method. The goal of Classroom Action Research was to improve the students’ achievement in the classroom.This research was done by researcher at grade VIII A of SMP PGRI Bengkulu. This class consists of 26 students. Fourteen (14) females and twelve (12) males students. There were four instruments used in collecting data, they were by reading test, interview, observation sheet, and documentation. In Classroom Action Research (CAR), the procedure was started from Preassessment and cycles. The cycle were aimed to give improvement to the students’ skill. In this research, the researcher did three cycles. Based on the research result in cycle 1, cycle 2, and Cycle 3. Think Aloud strategy improved the students’ reading comprehension. The students’ percentage improved from 34,62 % students passed reading test in cycle 1 to 88,46% students passed in cycle 3. This better improvement was also revealed from the observation checklist result which was good. It can be concluded that Think Aloud strategy improved the students’ reading comprehension at grade VIII of SMP PGRI Bengkulu. The percentage of students who passed the minimum mastery criterion improved continuallly from baseline data to cycle 1, cycle 2, and cycle 3. The mean score also improved continually from baseline to cycle 3.

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