https://journal.unismuh.ac.id/index.php/exposure/article/view/762
Nurul Aini
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- What are the titles of article you have read?
DOUBLE ENTRY JOURNAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
2. What are the important points you find from reading the article?
- ABSTRACT
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. 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 Pasui is poor level before applying the double entry journal technique, but after applying the technique in the second cycle, the students’ reading comprehension is classified as good categories.
- INTRODUCTION
Reading is one of the four language skills that should be mastered in language learning. It is usually taught and integrated with the other language skills (listening, speaking, and writing) Generally, the teaching of reading as a foreign language (EFL reading) in Indonesia aims at enabling students to read and comprehend the texts and other materials written in English. Students are expected to master skills in the level of literal, interpretative, and creative comprehension. It is shown in the most of students’ handbook content that is dominated in text. Unfortunately, Indonesian students are still lack of skills in reading comprehension. Especially, the results of the preliminary study conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Pasui. It shows that students in this school get difficulties in answering questions related to English texts given to them. Besides that, the students’ average score of reading achievements conducted in the preliminary study is quite poor.
Journal entry technique let the students to read the text and also give them opportunities to discuss or share their problems with their friends. Moreover, this technique is very useful because it can be used as a tool to increase the students’ speaking ability in the form of class discussion.
Using this technique, teacher asks the students to write down what they think interesting in the reading text. Besides, the students are also encouraged to write any questions, confusion related to a text. The students may also write some responses to the text. That why this is called as a journal entry technique. By reading this journal, the teacher can make a judgment about the students understanding.
- THEORETICAL
Journal entry technique is a strategy which enables the students to record their responses to text in preparation for class discussion. The students have the opportunity to express their thoughts and become actively involved with the material they read. As the corner stone of such a communications method, student journals have proven simple, yet effective”. In this technique, teacher introduces a passage of text to the students, then the students write a response to a particular quotation from the reading text, which they think the most interesting or the most difficult part. After that, they bring their journal into the class to do a discussion, to do a paired annotation, or for group activity.
- RESEARCH METHOD
This research uses classroom action research (CAR). The research will be conducted in SMA Negeri 1 Pasui in August-September 2011-2012 academic year.
The research subject is the eleventh year students of SMA in 2011-2012 academic years. The class consists of 30 students with 18 women and 12 men.
The Independent variable of this research is the Journal-Entry Technique; the important process to increasing the student’s reading comprehension. While
Dependent variable of the research is the students’ literal and interpretative comprehension. There are three instruments used namely observation sheet aims at finding out the students’ data about their presence and activeness in teaching learning process, questionnaire aims at finding out the students’ responses toward teaching learning process by using Journal-Entry Techniques, and Facts test whish was to get information about students’ reading improvement after teaching learning process end.
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