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2.1.5 The Use of CIRC to Improve the Students’ Reading Comprehension
and Writing
Sari 2011 conducted the research “The Use Of Circ Cooperative Integrated
Reading And Composition To Improve t he Students’ Reading Comprehension
And Writing an Experimental Research in XI Grade Students of SMA N 1 Banjarnegara in the Academic Year 20102011
”. The researcher of this study conducted this study in order to know whether or not the CIRC can improve
student’s reading comprehension and writing. Based on the several studies above about CIRC and the result show us if CIRC is
very effective to be used to teach some materials and also can improve the result of the students. From those 5 studies above, 3 of them are Classroom Action
Research studies which have the purpose to improve the students result. Two of them are Experimental Research Studies; 1 Dwi Puji Astuti
’s Final Project 2012 entitled
“The Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text of the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Negeri Gembong Pati Taught by Using CIRC
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition Method in the Academic Year 20112012
” has purpose to know whether CIRC is effective or not to teach descriptive text and this study only uses the single group as the sample. 2 Dian
Mefita Sari’s final project 2011 entitled The Use of CIRC Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition to Improve The Students’ Reading
Comprehension and Writing an Experimental Research in XI Grade Students of SMA N 1 Banjarnegara in the Academic Year 20102011 has the purpose to
improve not only the students’ reading comprehension but also their writing skill.
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between those studies and this study. First, in this research researcher wants to know the effectiveness of CIRC to teach reading materials especially the recount
text materials. Second, this CIRC is not be compared by traditional or conventional teaching technique but it is compared by another cooperative
learning technique that is JIGSAW. So, the result of this study shows us which is more effective between CIRC and JIGSAW to teach recount text. Third, this
research wants to know the effectiveness of CIRC if it is compared by JIGSAW to teach recount text materials for the Senior High School Students.
In this study, the researcher is curious about how the use of “CIRC” to teach
recount text and the significance of the improvement as a result of it in teaching learning process. Therefore, the researcher is conducting an experimental research
to find out the answer.
2.2 Theoretical Review