Improving students reading comprehension by survey, question, read, and write (sqrw) strategy at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan

Yaspiah, Yaspiah (2015) Improving students reading comprehension by survey, question, read, and write (sqrw) strategy at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was talking about improving students’ reading comprehension by Survey, Question, Read, and Write (SQRW) strategy at grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Panyabungan. Most of students had low achievement in reading comprehension, students did not have many vocabulary, students did not have good strategy in reading. The problems were influenced by internal and external factors. The problems in internal factors were students’ difficulties in identifying topic sentence, identifying supporting idea, identifying meaning of difficult word, identifying important information, and identifying conclusion. The problems in external factors were motivation, move to another chair, noisy, and asking permission. This research purposed to describe the students’ achievement in reading comprehension and to identify the factors which influence students’ reading comprehension by using survey, question, read, and write (SQRW) strategy at grade VIII SMP N 1 Panyabungan. Research methodology that used in this research was classroom action research by implementing the Kemmis design which consisted of four steps as; planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. To solve the students’ problems in reading comprehension, the researcher applied SQRW strategy. The researcher used two cycles; every cycle consisted of two meetings. Moreover, the participants of this research were the class of VIII (23 students) and there was collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data was derived from reading comprehension tests, observation, and interview. Based on the research result, showed the improvement mean score of the students. Students’ score in cycle 1 was 53.69 (26.08%) and students’ score in cycle 2 was 75.65 (69.56%). From the students’ mean score in cycle 1. It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Based on observation notes stated that the students got improvement and the students were more active and interested in learning reading comprehension. Related to the interview result, it could be known that students’ reading comprehension had improved. It asserted that by using SQRW strategy improve students’ reading comprehension.

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