TITLE : DOUBLE ENTRY JOURNAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
JOURNAL : Exposure Journal 25
VOLUME & PAGE : Vol. 1 No. 1 Mei 2012, 10 page.
YEAR : 2012
WRITER : Bahrum Amin
REVIEWER : Nurul Aini (1910631060039)
DATE : 28 march 2021
RESEARCH OURPOSE : The objective of the research is to know the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension using double entry journal technique at the second year students’ of SMA Neg. 1 Pasui.
RESEARCH SUBJECT : Second Grade Students of SMA Neg. 1 Pasui.
ASSEMENT DATA : Double entry journal technique
METODE PENELITIAN : Classroom Action Research (CAR)
RESEARCH STEPS : This research is a classroom action research consist of two cycles, the mean score of the students’ reading comprehension for diagnostic-Test is 5.95 which is categorized as poor classification. While the mean score of the students’ reading comprehension in cycle I was 6.39. It is higher than the students’’ D-Test. But the result was still not significant, because it is still categorized as fair and under the KKM 60. So the research is continued to the cycle II and the mean score of the students’ reading comprehension of cycle II was 6.82. Having analyzed the data, it can be stated that the students’ reading comprehension at the second year in class XI of SMA Neg.1
RESEARCH RESULT : The result of the finding shows that the strategy of double entry journal technique can improve the student achievement in reading comprehension. They are able to understand the material given well. It can be seen by their mean score of the cycle I (6.48) and cycle II (6.86). They second cycle higher than cycle I and D-Test. After seeing the result of all research findings, there are still many students’ get low and it is still far from perfect. In first post-test, more than a half number of students seventeen get poor (56.6%), four students classified as fair (13.2%), there are classified as fairly good (10%), four classified as good (13.2%) and there are two students classified as very good (6.6%).
The rate percentage of the student achievement in second test shows significant improvement of student achievement in reading comprehension. The number of students’ who get poor in cycle II is lower (20 %) than cycle I (56.6%). The highest improvement of the students’ achievement in cycle II is in fair classification, from fur students’ (13.2%), to 12 students’ (40%). Six students’ classified as fairly good (20%), there are students’ classified as good (10%) and also three as very good (10%). It sign that giving second cycle is very important because it can help to overcome the students’ weakness in cycle I. At the end of the cycle I, the research made a reflection to see the weakness and then made a correction. The result of the reflection showed the positive impact in the second cycle. The students’ more active than before because the changing of the way in learning.
DISANVANTAGES REASEARCH : Not all students like reading, so it become an additional task for the teacher. Teacher must be provide guidance to the student who has problems with the reader so that he can start to like reading.
ADVANTAGES RESEARCH : By using this method the teacher can easily find out the reading comprehension of the students’. And with double entry journal technique, students’ can more easily understand it.
CONCLUSION : The use of double entry journal technique in presenting the reading comprehension material at students of class XII of SMA Neg. I Pasui in Enrekang improved the students’ achievement significantly. It can be concluded that the application of double entry journal technique in teaching reading comprehension is effective to improve the students’ reading achievement of SMA Neg. I Pasui in Enrekang regency.
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