The Relevant Studies THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

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D. The Relevant Studies

Some previous studies on degrees of comparison of adjectives have been conducted by some researchers. First, Zakiyah studied about “Improving Students Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text through CTL: A Classroom Action Research in the Second Year Students of SMP Bakti Mulya 400 Jakarta”. This research is related to the result of a preliminary study showed that the students were still confused to comprehend the passage in reading skill; especially in descriptive text.The researcher used Classroom Action Research CAR as the method of the research. She used research design of Kurt Lewin which consists of two cycles and each cycle of four phases, there are Planning, Acting, Observing and Reflecting. The writer concluded that the implementation of CTL was successful since the criteria of succes were achieved. The first criterion was 70 of students could pass the assessment score above 70 based on the Minimum Mastery Criterion-Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal KKM. the finding showed that 73.91 of students had already achieved the target score. 24 Second, Al Ansori studied about “An error Analysis on the use of degree of comparison of adjective: A Case Study in first year of MAN 11 Jakarta Selatan” He analyzed the data by using descriptive research. The result of his research is the most type of error made by student is Misformation, Selection, Omission and Addition. From 920 sentences collected from 23 students, it is found 522 error occurrences. The percentage of error takes up 56.75. 25 Third, Fernando conducted a research on “Improving Students Ability in Forming Degree of Comparison by Using Substitution Drills: A Classroom Action Research in the Second Year Students Vocational School of Bangun Nusantara 2 Cipondoh”. This research is related to the result of a preliminary 24 Siti Zakiyah, “Improving Student Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text through Contextual Teaching and Learning CTL, Skripsi ”, Jakarta:Perpustakaan Utama Syahid UIN Jakarta, 2011. 25 M Imam Al Ansori, “An error Analysis on the use of degree of comparison of adjective: A Case Study in first year of MAN 11 Jakarta Selatan”, Skripsi, Jakarta: Perpustakaan Utama UIN Syahid Jakarta, 2011. 20 study showed that the students still find difficulties in degree of comparison. The researcher used Classroom Action Research CAR as the method of the research. He used research design of Kurt Lewin which consists of two cycles and each cycle of four phases, there are Planning, Acting, Observing and Reflecting. . The writer concluded that the research was successful. It is proved by the result of posttest 2 which is done in the last of cycle two. the result states that there are 32 from 33 students of 96.97 of their score have passed the Minimal Mastery level Criterion with the total mean score 84.90. It improves 24.24 from posttest 1 which gains 72.73 with the total mean score 77.12. Besides, it also improves 51.52 from pretest to posttest 2 which gains only 45.45 with the total mean score 68.18. 26

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